Mones com la Becky

1999
1h 37m

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Biography Documentary

While the mentally-ill inmates of the Therapeupic Community of Martutene prepare a performance about the life of Portuguese psychiatrist António Egas Moniz, who developed the surgical proced... Read allWhile the mentally-ill inmates of the Therapeupic Community of Martutene prepare a performance about the life of Portuguese psychiatrist António Egas Moniz, who developed the surgical procedure known as lobotomy to treat schizophrenia in 1935, filmmakers Jordá and Villazán (who w... Read allWhile the mentally-ill inmates of the Therapeupic Community of Martutene prepare a performance about the life of Portuguese psychiatrist António Egas Moniz, who developed the surgical procedure known as lobotomy to treat schizophrenia in 1935, filmmakers Jordá and Villazán (who were mental patients once in their lives) reflect on modern psychiatric therapies. The titl... Read all

Directors
- Joaquim Jordà
- Núria Villazán
Writers
- Joaquim Jordà
- Núria Villazán
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6.7/10

170

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Directors
- Joaquim Jordà
- Núria Villazán
Writers
- Joaquim Jordà
- Núria Villazán
Stars

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Awards
- 4 wins total

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Valentí Agustí

Self

Francisco Franco

Self
(archive footage)

Joaquim Jordà

Self

João Maria Pinto

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Carmen Polo

Self
(archive footage)

Marian Varela

Directors
- Joaquim Jordà
- Núria Villazán
Writers
- Joaquim Jordà
- Núria Villazán
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5davidcarbajales

Schizophrenia:past and present.

Monos como Becky (Monkeys like Becky) is a documentary in two mixed parts. One of the parts is about the portuguese neurophysiologist Antonio Egas Moniz, Nobel prize for Medicine in 1949, who was one of the first (or even the first) scientist who operated on schizophrenic patients using the technic called lobotomy.

The other part is about the day by day life of schizophrenic people nowadays: their behaviours, their relationships, their treatments for the illness. The title of the movie is a reference to a chimpanzee used to experiment for a better knowledge of the schizophrenia. In the present the lobotomy is not used, dued to its lack of operative results in most of the cases and the appearence of very effective new drugs (in the 70's) to control the symptoms and disturb behaviours caused by the mental illness.