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A doctor who is serious about their career and...

posted 12 years ago by emo_ville2002
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....the welfare of their two, clearly mentally ill, children, does not choose to treat her own two psychotic children.

Her children killed a frog in a vise, then killed the family cat, yet those two incidents still weren't enough for the mother to use her brain, and a large dose of common sense, to get another doctor involved? Please give me a break.

Just keep talking into that damn video camera lady! We should be glad we never have to see such a clueless and unprofessional 'doctor'! Though, most of us surely have no idea what goes on in the private lives of the medical professionals we deal with, which is scary when you think about it.

Treating her own children was, of course, the main and most glaring problem with this film, but had she taken those two evil monsters to a qualified psychiatrist, or a therapist, with no emotional ties to the situation, there would have been no movie, because the kids would have been put in a mental ward.

After seeing this film on IFC about a year ago, I just saw this movie again recently, Sure this film was 'different', but it was in no way realistic or believable on so many levels.

An intelligent doctor, when making a diagnosis, depends mostly on scientific evidence, diagnostic tests and the reality they see right in front of them. A logical doctor also usually doesn't get married to a pastor, a person who believes in demons and angels as the reasons why humans do the things they do.

IIRC, the pastor did blame his kids' psychotic behavior on literal demons? Religious people mostly believe in things they've never seen, which is actually just as absurd as the doctor treating her own kids!

[–] DeusExKatrina 12 years ago

It was a tragic failure on the mother's part but it definitely wasn't a problem with the film. No doubt the mother knew treating her own children was *beep* stupid but people are complex beings who often possess tragic flaws. In the mother's case, her tragic flaws are pride, embarrassment, fear, which led her to treat her own children despite knowing it was wrong. From the New Years footage we know that the mother was extremely nervous about other people knowing her children are psychopaths, so it's highly plausible she would treat her own children to keep anyone else from knowing about it.

There are also other reasonable factors such as the secluded area they live in, which may not have had any psychiatrists equipped to treat her kids for hundreds of miles.

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"Pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source. True humility is the antidote to shame."

[–] gothic_a666 11 years ago

I think you're absolutely right about the mother being very embarrassed about her kids being the way they are. She would probably see it as a personal failure on her part if she introduced another doctor.

After she starts to medicate them and they are acting normal she says "I cured my children", the way she puts it shows she is exceedingly proud about herself.