Angelina Jolie's film The Changling (2008) is based on real events in Los Angeles in 1928. The film shows how police use psychiatry to silence unpopular people. The film focuses on women but the principle applies to all. 80 years later, not much has changed with police and psychiatric abuses.
Another recent film, Shutter Island (2010), starring Leonardo DiCaprio is based on a novel with fictitious events and persons. This film appears to be propaganda for the psychiatric industry. That government psychiatrists use vulnerable humans for experiments without consent and destroy rather than heal is fact. But this film makes it appear that these are fantasies of maniacs. It portrays psychiatrists as humane people doing good, the image promoted by high powered PR firms for many decades. Depraved psychiatrists get away with harm in the name of good due to blind beliefs of citizens which are reinforced by journalists who are incapable of skepticism regarding psychiatry.
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