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Sunday 22 January 2012

Titicut Follies (1967)

The Massachusetts government tried to ban it and have all copies destroyed because it showed what went on inside the walls of a state run Correctional Institution for the criminally insane. In 1969 it was permitted to be shown to doctors, lawyers, judges, health-care professionals and social workers. The United States Supreme Court refused to hear the case for an appeal. 24 years later the US government lifted the ban so the general public could see it because they believed themselves far enough removed from their shame that they could pretend things are different now.

4 meals you'll eat or we'll make you eat out of 5

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