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In this video, we will explain Wolf.
This movie tells the story of a
man who believe he's a wolf trapped in a man's body.
When he's sent to a mental asylum,
he and his animal-bound peers are forced to undergo increasingly extreme forms of curative therapies.
So who exactly is this wolf man?
What's the mystery behind it?
Let's find out in Wolf.
Wolf begins by showing a young man named Jacob who is completely naked in the middle of the forest.
Jacob behaved as if he was a wolf trapped in a human body.
Because of his strange behaviour,
his parents reluctantly sent their son to a mental asylum facility in a remote area,
hoping that they could cure Jacob to return to behaving like a normal human.
This facility is only specifically
for people with mental disorders who think they are animals.
On his first day at the facility,
Jacob found many patients who acted like animals, such as parrots, dogs, cats, ducks, squirrels, and so on.
Jacob and the patients are cared for by a group of psychiatrists, a medical team and trained
staff who constantly monitor the activities of the patients.
The atmosphere at the facility is actually quite comfortable and pleasant,
with a swimming pool and also a unique layout.
However,
being in the middle of a group of people who behave like animals only make Jacob question his true identity.
Well, actually the concept of the facility is quite good, where patients
are accustomed to seeing various cool things that humans can do by displaying various fun activities
such as dancing and having fun through monitors displayed on almost all sides of the facility.
Patients are also allowed to use gadgets to remind themselves as far smarter humans than animals
because they can operate technology.
Even though they have been pampered with comfortable places to live and gadgets,
it seems that the staff at the mental asylum have also complied with some of the
wishes of patients who behave like animals,
such as providing food that animals usually eat in the wild.
For example, one female patient who feels that she is a parrot,
the asylum only provides food in grains to the patient.
Meanwhile, Jacob, who felt that he was a wolf, only served raw meat as food.
In addition to making patients more obedient, it also aims to create a deterrent
effect on patients to return to their nature, which is to become complete human beings.
One day, Jacob, who was engrossed in his gadget,
was approached by a young man named Rufus who said he was a German Shepherd.
After lunch, Jacob was approached by a girl nicknamed the Wildcat.
The girl seemed to have lived in the facility for quite some time,
as she seemed to be familiar and used to the staff and other patients.
Wildcat took Jacob's plate and then left, stealing glances at him.
Not only that, Wildcat often observed Jacob secretly, as if she had feelings for him.
But of course Jacob didn't notice because he was so busy thinking about himself.
One day, Jacob and some patients were invited to take a walk into the forest by Mr. Mann,
the head of the asylum.
The patients were put on collars and leashes as if they were pets.
Mr. Mann did this on purpose to challenge Jacob and
the other patients to show them the animal side of each other.
Mr. Mann then asked Rufus to crawl, bark, climb and scratch tree trunks like
a dog, while the other patients watched Rufus's behavior. Mr. Mann merely did this as a treatment
to cure them because by doing so, the patients were expected to hate being treated like that,
so that slowly their behavior would change back to being like humans in general. When Rufus
looked frustrated at being treated like an animal, Mr. Mann then stopped the treatment. Now it was
Jacob's turn to be treated like a wolf. Mr. Mann told him to crawl and howl like a normal wolf.
Although Jacob looked as frustrated as Rufus, he was even more motivated to become a complete wolf.
Jacob was frustrated that Mr. Mann even made it difficult to bring out his animal side.
Therefore, Jacob satisfied his desire to howl loudly in the room at night. Knowing that the
previous day's treatment had not worked on Jacob, Mr. Mann then asked Jacob to participate in a soul
enlightenment session through religious teachings according to his beliefs. Mr. Mann read a few
verses of scripture, hoping that Jacob would feel moved and remember his true identity as a human.
However, these efforts also did not produce results because Jacob did not listen to Mr. Mann.
Day by day, Jacob's animal behaviour was getting worse. He even dared to come out of the room,
walking around the facility with an attitude of vigilance and curiosity like a wild wolf.
One night, when Jacob was about to go out through the window, he noticed someone nearby, who was
none other than the Wildcat. Since the Wildcat had lived in the facility long enough, she knew of
several access doors that Jacob could use so that he could howl in the wild. Not long after that,
the day came when parents came to visit the asylum to see their children's progress while
undergoing treatment there. Likewise with Jacob's parents who came to visit him with some things.
Jacob's parents then talked about Jacob's brother who was still in the hospital after the attack by
Jacob who thought he was a wolf. Because of the assault incident, his parents were forced to put
him in a mental asylum. In their conversation, suddenly a small commotion broke out when one
of the patient's parents looked displeased and demanded an explanation from Mr. Mann because his
son's condition even worsened after undergoing treatment at the facility for six months. Mr.
Mann then brought the woman into his room so that other parents would not misunderstand and think
different things. After the parents' visit was over, Jacob and the other patients went back to
their routine by attending counselling sessions and other activities. In a counselling session,
one of the patients who thought he was a parrot expressed his wish to fly freely and get away from
that place. Over time, most patients even worsened their mental condition and acted
outside normal limits. On the following day, Mr. Mann finally complied with the parrot patient's
insistence on trying to fly. Mr. Mann asks her to jump out of the window and fly if she is a parrot.
But it turns out that the girl has a phobia of heights so she doesn't dare to jump.
Mr. Mann then said that she was not a parrot but a human; that's why she's afraid of height. However,
Jacob and the other patients even thought that the treatment carried out by Mr. Mann
is considered extreme and endangers the safety of patients. On the other hand, Jacob and Wildcat
always meet every night. They form a close bond, and together, they roam the hallways at night.
On the following day, all patients were gathered in one room and asked to show various expressions
such as crying, laughing, sad, happy, and joking. At first everyone seemed to enjoy it.
But the excitement didn't last long as the patients began to remember that they thought
of themselves as animals who shouldn't have expression. Shortly after, there was a small
commotion when a patient, who thought of himself as a bear, attacked another smaller patient.
Without thinking, Jacob immediately attacked the man, ignoring the warnings from the officers.
A few days later, the asylum held a return ceremony for several patients declared cured,
including Rufus. The parents also welcomed the return of their children whose condition
had recovered and was back to normal. However, Wildcat who watched the event from a distance,
looked very frustrated, until finally she decided to run away from the place before the event ended.
After the event, Mr. Mann takes Jacob to the back shed to see a wolf in a cage. Mr. Mann said that
the wolf was not proper for a human like Jacob. But Jacob paid no heed to Mr. Mann and instead
howled in front of the wolf. After witnessing the brutal treatment methods performed by Mr. Mann,
Jacob becomes more frustrated. He loses his identity as a human being, so Mr. Mann had
to lock him in an iron cage and gag his mouth so he wouldn't howl anymore. Although Jacob is now
in confinement, Wildcat still faithfully visits and accompanies him every night. One day, Mr.
Mann and some staff take Jacob to a room, where a patient who has been declared incurable is being
confined in an iron cage. Mr. Mann explained that the patient was a plane crash survivor several
years ago. Due to the accident, the patient was stranded in the middle of the forest for some time
and had to survive by becoming a cannibal and behaving like a predatory animal. The doctors
tried to cure him but always failed, so they forced the patient under special supervision.
However, seeing the untreated patient, Jacob's animal side became even more dominant,
so his behaviour became more and more similar to that of a wild wolf. Even Jacob did not hesitate
to attack the people around him, including Mr. Mann, so he is now under special supervision.
One day, Rufus' parents returned to the facility with their son, whose behaviour only got worse
after being sent home. Rufus always defecated and often attacked the neighbours so they were
forced to bring him back to the facility for the safety of many people. Mr. Mann then tries to
calm Rufus' parents who demand responsibility by pretending to be kind and caring. However,
when the parents left, Mr. Mann again treated Rufus and the other patients with cruelty,
which only the patients themselves, including Wildcat, knew. Wildcat, who thinks that Jacob will
suffer even more if he continues in the facility, then plans something to save him from Mr. Mann.
Wildcat then applies makeup so that her appearance will be more like a wild cat and sneaks into
Jacob's cage one night and makes love to him, but they are caught by a nurse who thinks that Jacob
has influenced Wildcat. After the incident, Mr. Mann became increasingly angry and often
tortured Jacob, making the other patients even more animalistic and challenging to control.
Knowing the spreading chaos, Mr. Mann could no longer contain his anger. He shouted and
intimidated the patients physically and mentally. Because the situation was not conducive after the
patients caused a commotion and Mr. Mann became more violent from time to time,
Wildcat acted quickly to free Jacob from the cage so that Mr. Mann would no longer bully him.
After incapacitating one of the nurses, Wildcat retrieves the key and gets Jacob out of the cage.
She then directs Jacob towards the outermost fence of the facility to escape into the forest.
However, Wildcat did not join in the escape because her human side was still more dominant so
she thought living among humans was still better for her than following her animal instincts. After
hearing Wildcat's reasoning, Jacob finally left the mental asylum and headed for the wilderness.
The film ends by showing Jacob howling loudly as a sign that he will now start a new life as a wild
wolf in the wilderness. This film shows a group of people who suffer from severe mental disorders but
do not get proper treatment, so their mental illness worsens. If any of you have a mental
illness, immediately seek help from experienced people in their field to handle it properly
and the healing will be faster. And if the people closest to us experience mental illness,
continue to provide the best support for them so that they don't feel neglected
and are always loved. After that, seek help from people who are experienced in this field.