Word: tomorrow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Silverman, author of "How Will I Feel Tomorrow?", yesterday called himself a "latter-day prophet" because of his "considerable work on the prediction of physical illness." Silverman said he can isolate ten "cues" which can predict physical illness before symptoms appear...
...ward doctor in Hurry Tomorrow, a documentary about psychiatric treatment in a state mental hospital, radiates the same uncertain blend of lunacy and expertise. "As soon as a patient stops insisting that he should be released," the doctor explains, "he'll be discharged...
...Hurry Tomorrow is less about the social origins or definitions of sanity then how provisionally-crazy people, once they're committed, are driven crazier. A black patient, for example, was told when he arrived at the hospital from jail that his charges would be dismissed; later he's led to believe that he had been confused--or crazy. Others are more bluntly lied...
...wonders whether Hurry Tomorrow entirely captures Norwalk, given the film's preoccupation with injections, with hallucinating patients roped to their beds and tranquilized men watching TV in an eerie "rec room." At times the directors try to clarify why patients have been committed; interviews with the doctor often show the reasons to be circumstantial or vague. Yet we don't get enough of such dialogue...
What Hurry Tomorrow does convey, over and over, is a network of Catch-22's disciplining a doped-up, very vulnerable population. The doctor summarizes it aptly: "If you like it here, you can stay here, and if you don't like it then you'll have to stay here...