The Man who hears Voices
Becca Frankel 21 April 2008, 3:54 PM
Leo Regan (who made the BAFTA winning 100% White) has his new film on tonight. It's a mix of documentary footage and reenactments with an actress playing a character who needed her identity protected. Rufus May was diagnosed with schizophrenia when he was 18, then later lied about his mental health history and trained as a psychologist. Now he works on the NHS, with a controversial philosophy that people who hear voices need to listen to them to address the root cause of problems, rather than try to mask them with drugs. He also trains his patients how to lie and pretend they are taking medication, so that establishments (like the medical profession itself) can accept them as people, rather than tarnishing them as 'mad' and incompetent.
Rufus was fitted with a microphone to record conversations with his client Ruth. These were transcribed and faithfully turned into a script, which is filmed in a documentary fashion. Rufus here plays himself playing himself, if you will, and so it's a very accurate portrait of how he see's the situation and experiences the encounters.
Tonight The Doctor Who Hears Voices, Channel 4, 10pm
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