Crazy Eights

All of a sudden I found myself thinking sociologically when I was watching a movie called Crazy Eights. It was under the "Horror" genre so I thought it was going to be about just plain scary things. It turned out to be a movie about how eight (later on in the movie it turned out to be nine) children are put into a sort of total institution. It was for experimenting on the children to show them what guilt is and to repress the memory of them even being there. It worked and they never remembered what happened when they were younger but their memory came back when one of their friends passed away because of his re- occurring nightmares of his past childhood and his final wish is for all of them to go back to the "Total Institution".

This reminded me of what we were learning in class about socialization. The children had to re-socialize their life and adapt to the institute's new rules and procedures. They also were de- socialized because they had to unlearn on what they though guilt was. For the children, the institute was like a prison to them. Even though they tried to repress the memory of their childhood, it came back.