Mental Illness Reflection

Film Reflection Analysis: On The Margin of Understanding The Reality of Mental Illness

The concept of mental and mental illness remains ambiguous for large segments of the world. This ambiguity takes on different forms and patterns in dealing with it, between considering mental illness as a form of magic that afflicts the patient or dealing with it as a stain on the family's brow. While Dealing with mental illness in less educated communities, Third world countries and economically disadvantaged countries, like Indonesia, is often a bad thing that exacerbates situations and turns them into tragic situations instead of dealing with them as diseases that need regular care and attention, just like any organic disease Normal. While others like

The film addresses psychotic-like illness experience of an Indonesian Balinese rice farmer in his late sixties, Nyoman Kereta. He has been married to his wife for almost twenty-five years, Made Ada, who already knew about his sickness before she got married to him. It turned out from the first interview conducted by the director with Kereta that he suffered from symptoms of hearing to confused voices in the rice field but by the time they became like spirits are fighting to live inside his body as they were asking him, ‘”Will you take care of us?’’. The documentary shows how much Kereta was open to talking about his feelings especially when he described how much he was scared from the voices which were coming from the grass as he wanted just to find a quiet and empty place to hide himself in from these evil spirit creatures.

A past mixed with pain, loss, and need are all embodied in the form of hearing voices, walking at night, blank mind, falling asleep issues adding to some strange movements he does. Inside all of that the people said it is a Karma, but some saw that his symptoms were reliable or interpretable such as his son, Wayan, who believes that there is something strange at the same time it’s normal and what his father sees is true but others like his wife it is ambiguous or dubious thing and the spirit of what the Kereta sees are not exist but It was a sign of schizophrenia diagnosis to his psychiatrist,