Guilty Except for Insanity looks at a world that most people are only familiar with through movies like "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ", but this documentary is anything but Hollywood..Here one sees the lives of regular people who have gone down the path that our society determines appropriate for people who are caught up at the juncture of the judicial system and psychiatric care. I am struck by how the patients and hospital staff are shown as demystified real individuals stuck in an imperfect system. This film does not romanticize "craziness" or " insanity". It shows a more complex situation without villains or boogey men.Instead, the viewer sees the mundane yet troublesome situation that the patients must deal with. This view is honest, and never sensational in an intentional way, but the impact takes the viewer to a deeper understanding of the tangled up system that some of our most vulnerable persons find themselves. I found myself wanting to cheer for the patients' successes and I felt a new respect for both the patients and the staff who care for them.
Review of Guilty Except for Insanity
