Review on America Horror story Asylum.
I know that,
this might be kind of old, because we are all waiting up to see the 4th
season of American Horror Story, but I did not have the chance to watch the
second season of the show. But during this week, I was looking here and there
to find a series to watch, and American Horror Story Asylum spring to my mind.
So I sat down, downloaded the whole season and started watching it.
The feelings were mixed while watching the first
episode. I was a little terrified with what I was watching, the torture, the
brutality was overwhelming, but despite that, the plot was really promising and
I fell for it! I could not stop watching it and after the first episode ended I
went straight to the second one, to see what Lana banana was going to do next.
I have to say that the conditions in the Asylum were much to my surprise really
realistic and I was thinking that what happened there, in that fictitious environment,
there was much possibility to happen in a real life asylum during that era. The
pain, the torture the human experiments, where all really painful to watch, and
brought me to a state where I thought that humans are beings driven by their ambitions
will do whatever can make them feel in power.
Sister Judy for example was really
hard on the patients there, and in her mind she was doing the best thing to
discipline them, according to her God of course. But if we look to her actions
rationally she was brutal and sometimes unfair with them. I am not saying that
she was wrong, I do not find fault with her, but sometimes the things she did
where a little over the top brutal.
As far as Dr.Arthur Arden , I was more than shocked watching
him do all these brutalities. I was on the verge of getting really sick watching
him creating monsters out of his patients. He is to the best of my knowledge a
sick doctor, driven by his nazi past, to create a new species more powerful
than humans, a plan that in his own mind was for the greater good, but it involved
many human sacrifices. And even though he never admitted that he was doing
something wrong with using sick patients to his advantage. Ηe saw them as tools to help him achieve his lifetime
goal, and did not treat them as human beings equal to him.
This
is a consequence of the laws and the way they treated mentally ill people in
the 1960s in the USA. They were all doomed and filled with dismay and served no
purpose in life but to live in awful conditions, until death comes for them,
and he surely wasn’t late. For the majority of the patients there, death came to
them unexpectedly and without further notice. It was rapid fast and hard and
ended them once and for good.
To be continued
With regards Conny May.
