Scorsese's skill at evoking the physical limits and emotional strains of confinement (for the officers quickly learn that their comings and goings occur solely at the discretion of the asylum's authorities) is impressive — even on my second viewing of the movie, I felt that constraint as if physically.
As to labor pain, both the shared intimacy with the mother and the emotional background during confinement may create mutual solicitude among the protagonists (i.e. midwifes, father, mother).
(Micha, 25, Russian undocumented migrant) Emotional-psychological violence consisted mostly of humiliation, confinement and emotional-psychological abuse related to the asylum process.
But what is difficult to convey is the emotional toll that solitary confinement takes on a human being.
The reported emotional violence regarded primarily confinement, threats – of which 23 with weapons - and racist verbal abuse.
It appears that rather than having an independent protective effect, it is the quality of support provided by female relatives during confinement that influences emotional wellbeing.
If, as Ms. Knox tells it, she was too gullible and naïve about people when she first arrived in Italy, she seems to have developed sharp powers of observation during her years in confinement, mapping out the emotional geometry at work among prisoners and guards, and the mental arithmetic she would perform in her head to get through each day.
Writing in the daily New York Times last month, Michiko Kakutani praised Knox's "ability to convey her emotions with considerable visceral power," noting that she "seems to have developed sharp powers of observation during her years in confinement, mapping out the emotional geometry at work among prisoners and guards, and the mental arithmetic she would perform in her head to get through each day".
Being in close proximity to a disapproving or emotionally cold relative during confinement would negatively affect emotional wellbeing.
Why should you be concerned about the inhumane conditions of prolonged solitary confinement, with all the social, emotional and mental deterioration that it entails?
