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Brainwashed
Schachnovelle
1960 · Film · 102 min
Directed by Gerd Oswald
Werner von Basil, a Austrian intellectual, was captured by the Nazis in 1938. They want to break him to confess smuggling. Without any mental sustenance, the only thing left to keep his mind busy is an old tactics book for chess.
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I saw in a norwegian documentary about gender roles (the name is "Brainwashed") where he finds a scientist that want to test if toys are related to culture or not.
What he do is get newborn babies as soon as he can, and give them human-looking toys, and mechanical-looking toys (ie: human looking are dolls of all sorts, and animals, mechanical toys range from simple geometrical shapes, like boxes and cylinders, to vehicles, machines, etc...)
And the reaction from the babies to the toy is so precise, that you can predict what baby is male or female by toy preference alone. (ie: female babies always drift toward liking animal/human looking toys, while male babies go for the non-alive stuff)