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Hi, this might help, its my experience, and it can be used to produce nice movie.
Also, willing to support as actor, in case you need.
This story is completely true, and is told as it happened.
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1. Thank you for sharing your story with us. Its medical narrative is too graphic for being published here – but, if any of its content is regarded as potentially useful for the film plot, it will of course be considered.
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I really appreciate your work especially because you have never underestimated measurements as a part of medical examination. I think that it should be involved in more medical-related scene in general. I also really appreciate that you chose mechanical balance beam scales, as it really underlines the cold, unfriendly, embarrassing and privacy-invading atmosphere of military conscription, for example. I would be pleased if you kept these features in your upcoming movies as it makes them unique within its category. I really like the retro setting, even if it takes place in the present. I would say there is plenty of old equipment that is still in use nowadays. I would have some little suggestions. I think it would be interesting to take a close-up shot on patient’s feet when they step on or off the scale. It really boosts the presence of the scene when the old mechanical scales make its noise. You could make some more detail on numbers, or they could be told out loud by whoever takes the measurement. The female patients would feel really embarrassed if their weight (which they consider to be really personal number) is shouted so the others (including males) in the waiting room could hear it.
Thank you very much both for your kind words of appreciation and for your visually very suggestive contribution.
As a powerful cinematographic expression of the extensive control exercised on the Earth’s adult population through the rigorous conscription process, MEDICAL COMMITMENT: A GLOBAL CONSCRIPTION – in its vast dystopian filmic narrative – will explicitly depict the entire range of anthropologic measurements which contribute to turning male and female conscripts into simple statistic figures. Depending on the medical system’s respective development in different regions of the world (from the poorest to the richest ones), the widest range of old and new medical instruments will be displayed in the plot – as symbols of the strong divisions always existing on our planet (in its past, present, and – without many doubts, unfortunately – also in its future, as it is anticipated by this dystopian drama). As we have already mentioned in a previous comment reply, this perhaps unprecedented filmic attempt (of efficiently combining new and old aspects of medical practice in the most expressive creative manner) requires from our production company a quite costly international cooperation both with modern time medical equipment suppliers and with important medical history museums being in possession of exquisite and still functional medical equipment from the past.
I don’t know how many decisions you have already made, but here are some suggestions.
– Be realistic on the recruits: Don’t limit yourself to beautiful, fit recruits. Some recruits may try to escape by faking some issue. Others, eager to help the world may hide something which may be problematic once on the front. Let the Drs try to figure it out. Also, there can be some transgender who didn’t declare their situation on the intake form. And then there is the very fat and and the ultra-thin bodies.
– Be realistic on the medical tooling. Use modern electronic equipment. Electronic stethoscope to give the actual body sound. Let’s say that governments requires a recording of body sound for future references. Use patient monitors for the actor who has a real irregular heartbeat. Have the nurses give a clear reading of the intake forms and of any measurements when we can’t read the measuring device (scale, measuring tape, blood pressure, etc.)
Let me know if you want to discuss these and other ideas further.
Thank you very much for your exhaustive suggestions.
For the production of MEDICAL COMMITMENT: A GLOBAL CONSCRIPTION, we are actually cooperating both with medical equipment suppliers and with medical history museums – in a unique attempt of efficiently combining new and old aspects of medical practice in the most expressive creative manner. (This costly cooperation is one of several major factors decisively contributing to a substantially increased production budget for this film and series – in comparison with our previous film productions on similar themes. Which is why we have decided to initiate the related crowdfunding campaign launching soon – with the hope that passionate film lovers who have truly enjoyed our previous films will consider bringing their financial contribution to this quite demanding production, in exchange for really great perks which will bring them a lot of cinematographic satisfaction.)
Having been a conscript in the United States Army, your films have had a special meaning for me. The theme that you have expressed in some of your early films, the subjugation of young men and women and the humiliation of being depersonalized in front of other people, is a subject that needs to be brought into the public spotlight. The idea that once you become ‘property’ of a military machine you are no longer a person with feelings and personal privacy, is something that you have clearly documented in your work.
My own experience was very similar to what you have shown. In my case the event involved being subjected to a medical exam by a callous woman doctor who used my exam as a teaching experience for two nursing students. I had no say as to whether or not I would allow the students to be a part of the exam, I was simply ordered to comply. As it turned out one of the students was a woman from my own unit who I knew superficially.
What made the experience so poignant for me was the same kinds of feelings that you have shown happening in your films, The feeling of lose of control, depersonalization, humiliation and embarrassment, all in the name of learning to be turned into a tool of the military, no longer a person, but now a ‘soldier’.
I think your work is very important and if I can make any suggestion it would be to bring the full impact of the experience to the viewer, without any hesitation about showing all that a person actually goes through.
In your film “About a Young Man’ you were able to bring a lot of those feelings to the viewer, but the young man in question was only a recruit and although he was subjected to a humiliating experience, once a person is ‘in service’ the lack of control is so much more intensified.
In my own experience, my exam was much more in depth and invasive and the humiliation was compounded by the presence of the students and the fact that they were allowed to participate in my exam. I also got the feeling that since I was a man I should not have the feeling of embarrassment that might be associated with what a woman might feel in the same situation. Both the doctor and the two female students seemed to buy into this double standard. My own experience was compounded by the fact that I saw both of the students often after the exam and the feelings of humiliation that I experienced during the exam were rekindled.
I think you made a great start at expressing these feelings to the viewers of your films. I think you should take the next step and explore the idea even further with a more intense experience on the part of the subject.
Thank you very much for your great contribution and kind words of appreciation.
A situation very similar to the one presented by you will be extensively depicted in all its relevant details and aspects in MEDICAL COMMITMENT: A GLOBAL CONSCRIPTION.
Please feel free to return with further comments and suggestions at any time!
The last few movies were very focused on measurements. I think it would be nice to add more medical exams especially intimate exams as those would be the most embarrassing for the patients.
Just wondering when can we expect the next update?
While the first two films were approaching the theme of compulsory military conscription and obligatory military service in a metaphoric manner (as powerful film parables), and systematic measurements of conscripts (turning them into simple objects) were used as symbols for their respective human condition in the conscription process and in war time, it is the goal of this gigantic third project (consisting of both a major feature film and an extensive series) to considerably expand the above-mentioned filmic parable approach and to for the first time cover the entire perspective of compulsory military conscription procedures in a dystopian cinematographic vision – in order to emphasize all unnecessary human suffering possibly caused (in terms of discomfort, embarrassment, insecurity, fear, health damage, life danger, and so on), and also to specifically warn about the serious possible threats which a compulsory global conscription could eventually pose to individual and collective human rights on planet Earth.
All film lovers who are interested in the project and have signed up for updates on the crowdfunding campaign’s pre-launch website will receive related news periodically, as soon as such news is officially released.
When can we expect more details about the patients and doctors taking part in the film?
Further actor introduction videos will be gradually published on the project’s campaign website.
All film lovers who are interested in the project and have signed up for updates on the respective website will receive e-mail notifications each time a new such video is published.
What I like about your previous movies is that manhood also is fairly approached in a medical context as much as womanhood . I have always had an interest in subjects dealing with male health condition , so I suggest that you go on with this kind of gender equality in your new film . I wouldn’t even mind if manhood prevailed … The project looks intriguing , so I wish you good luck with it !
Thank you!