Nise: The Heart of Madness Page #4

You shouldn't have done

it to a colleague.

Dr. Cezar is in charge

of this patient.

I don't regret it.

He doesn't care about Fernando.

I did what I thought was right.

Whatever happens

to the patient from now on

is your responsibility.

Let's sit here for a while.

Look at Lima.

Come here, Fernando.

Do you want to go?

Do you?

Let's go?

Come, Fernando.

Help me, Almir.

Slowly.

- This is great.

- Where are the dogs?

This is great.

What a surprise.

It's Jung!

Mario, look at this!

What's this, Nise

Jung? A letter?

Jung, Mario.

Look what he says...

He thinks I'm a man.

Jung is also sexist.

That's not a problem.

He is very impressed with

the quality of the artwork

which is rare

in schizophrenics.

He advises me to learn more about

the history of each of my patients.

He also says...

"It seems like

your patients work

surrounded by people that are

not afraid of the unconscious."

Another client arrived.

Who wants to meet him?

Calm, easy.

This one already has an owner.

I'm giving him to Lcio,

the creator of the warriors.

- He's mine.

- Clean your hands.

Don't cover him in clay.

Don't squeeze him too much.

Careful because his paw is hurt.

It's meal time.

Where are the bowls?

This isn't yours.

Doctor.

- Doctor, please.

- Would you like to come in?

No, I'm fine here.

Animals are not allowed

in the hospital.

You will have to fix this

before we get fined.

But they are good

for the clients.

Animals generate affection.

This has been great

tor their treatment.

They are filthy and defecate

all over the hospital.

Everybody is complaining.

Doctors, nurses, orderlies.

These animals work

as co-therapists.

Animals as co-therapists?

Frankly, you have lost

all sense of reality.

I don't know

what to tell you.

If they are suddenly

taken away from the clients

it will be a catastrophe.

Scabies, ticks, the smell...

It's out of control.

As if the hospital

didn't already stink.

These animals take

more baths

than your patients

in the infirmary.

Doctor

I don't care about your opinion

and if this anarchy doesn't end,

you will be punished.

Please, keep this door shut.

Music.

What about the music, Fernando?

The open window

looking at the landscape...

Someday it opens...

but it's a lot of work.

You can see the

structure is a bit curvy.

Emygdio always starts

with these short strokes

and from them he structures

the rest of the painting.

They're "dotz".

- What? "Dotz"?

- "Dotz", the "dotz".

He came up with it

this brush movement.

We've spent years

studying an history,

methods and painters from

all over the world,

to suddenly find this here,

in a psychiatric hospital.

Emygdio, you are one of the

best painters in Brazil.

I'm not a painter,

I'm a worker.

But, while I'm inside here,

I'm going to paint.

This work isn't just

a medical investigation, Nise.

It's also artistic

and political too.

I've talked to a lot of people

about the revolution

you're having in this hospital.

We have to get

this art out of here,

people need to see this.

You are alone, at the mercy

of your reactionary colleagues.

Science will not save your work,

it's art and the public opinion.

Get down, Octvio.

Let's go, it's time to sleep.

We're finishing up here.

Close up and give

the key to Luizinho.

Let's go?

Let's go, Raphael.

Let's go?

Let's go, Raphael.

"Fishie."

Emygdio wants to go back home.

I would like to know what

happened between both of you.

We were neighbors

and very young.

We were close,

but nothing important.

Actually, I did like him.

But he joined the Navy

and started to travel a lot.

I spent a long time

without seeing him.

It was hard.

So you married his brother?

Yes, but he got sick.

He and his brother

stopped talking

because of all this.

What about this request?

Do you think that taking

Emygdio home could work out?

I don't know.

I have to talk to my husband.

I think that...

He's painting, right?

- Isn't he better?

- No.

He is still in treatment.

Everybody dancing.

Look out, a snake!

I'm lying.

I've never seen them like this.

I wonder what our distinguished

psychiatrists are saying.

It looks like our artist is

ready to leave.

Don't worry,

we'll take care of him.

How will you support Emygdio?

With his art work, Doctor.

- Let's go to the party?

- Let's go.

Let's cheer up.

Raphael, look at me.

I have to tell you something.

Something great's happened.

I got a scholarship,

and I'm going to London.

I won't be able

to come here for a while,

but I...

I'll be back.

Understand?

I promise I'll be back.

Ivone, see what's wrong

with Raphael.

Marta.

What happened?

I told him, Doctor.

- I told him.

- Did you?

Now leave him alone.

- Me and Raphael...

- There is no "Me and Raphael"

It's Raphael.

There is only Raphael.

- Do you understand?

- Calm down.

I'm not angry, Almir!

Stop whining,

it's messing up the party.

Attention,

ladies and gentlemen.

A round of applause for our

newest oldest artist,

Emygdio de Barros.

Tell us what will you do

when you leave.

Good evening.

I would like to

tell all my colleagues that

while I am here

I will continue painting and...

But you won't paint here,

you will paint out of here.

- Right?

- It's here...

this machine inside.

They killed them!

They killed them!

What happened?

Ivone?

Ivone, I need you.

Now's not the time.

Go help Fernando.

Almir, go get help.

Call the manager.

Help Lucio.

Why give them and

then take away?

Stop it, Lucio.

Why give them and

then take away?

Why give them?

Lucio, stop.

Dr. Cezar, where is Lucio?

Please, don't do anything to him.

You've seen the beautiful

things he's been making.

He is expressing himself

and showing affection.

Affection?

He almost killed a nurse.

He was brought to that.

He couldn't take the loss

and freaked out.

Please, our treatment

can't be interrupted.

Lucio is my problem.

Don't worry about it.

Everything is under control.

[DO NOT FEAR THE UNCONSCIOUS]

- EXHIBIT -

ARTISTS FROM ENGENHO DE DENTRO

Just a minute, Mario.

Forgive me, Marta.

I don't want to hurt

those I love,

but when I realize it,

it's done.

Go, study and come back soon.

We have a lot more to do here.

Ladies and gentlemen, excuse me.

Excuse me, please.

I would now like

to say a few words.

One of the most powerful functions of art

is the exposure of the unconscious.

Which is just as mysterious

in the normal

as in the so-called abnormal.

The images of the unconscious

are only a symbolic language

that psychiatry must decipher.

But nothing prevents

these paintings from being

harmonious,

dramatic,

captivating,

alive or beautiful,

such as true works of an.

This is an opportunity to see

what conventional psychiatry

is attempting to stifle.

Ladies and gentlemen,

I now present you the work of

great new Brazilian artists

Raphael Domingues,

Lucio Noeman,

Carlos Pertuis,

Adelina Gomes,

Emygdio de Barros,

Fernando Diniz,

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