Films to teach the Social Context

David J. Connor Lynne M. Bejoian, Pigs, Pirates, and Pills: Using Film to Teach the Social Context of Disability.
Teaching Exceptional Children 39 no2 52-60 N/D 2006

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High School: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
For the third selected unit, which specifically targeted the concept of institutionalization, the students in our course cited One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) as an excellent choice for high school students or adults. The film treats many dense, interconnected issues, including a discussion of antisocial behavior, a description of what happens when a person is institutionalized, and the longstanding conflation of criminality and mental illness. In studying the roles, responsibilities, actions, and reactions of characters, one important theme to explore is the favoring of scientific knowledge over other forms of knowing and the implications for all members of the community--but especially for those with the disabled label. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest also illustrates many serious issues, including the taken-for-granted extreme levels of surveillance to which those with disabilities are often subjected, inappropriate experimentation and "treatments" for those who are deemed mentally ill, and overreliance on pills to control people who act differently from the norm. In addition, the movie offers clear instances in which the self-interest of services ostensibly designed to support people with disabilities contributes to the maintenance of inequities, with those who run the services--no matter how well intentioned they are--upholding the status quo.