We have a special treat for you Mutiny of Preverts listeners who have long grown tired of the format and are now only listening as a result of A) losing a bet, B) being related to the hosts, or C) out of the sheer ecstasy you feel from hate listening to us and fantasizing about what incredible horrors the Devil will reign down on Azed and Jay when they are inevitably banished to Hell.
We will not only be discussing an excellent new film called Drunk On Too Much Life, but for the very first time, we have the makers of the very film we are discussing, Michelle Melles and Pedro Orrego, on the show to discuss it with us. The film is a very personal one about their daughter Corrina and her experience with "madness" or what she referred to as being "drunk on too much life." We go deep with Michelle and Pedro on their family's search for something more than the biomedical diagnoses and medications that proved inadequate for Corrina and discuss everything from the history of mental health through the centuries, the influence social power has on mental health and the central role that art, poetry and music has played for Corrina, Michelle and Pedro in the healing process.
We also dig into a few of the greatest and/or most notorious examples of madness portrayed on film including Titicut Follies, Warrendale, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Grey Gardens, Crumb and others and discuss some of the ethical considerations that have often been ignored, especially in the case of documentaries.