You can not legislate morality unless you want to violate freedom of thought and
give us all lobotomies or brainwash everyone.
The second before the girl is
given the lobotomy, the scene flips and now the girl is in a brothel where in five days she'll be sold off to the High Roller.
But as a man (Jon Hamm) is about to
give her the lobotomy, she flashes into her imagination, where she's to be sold to the big spender (Hamm), and all the girls who were in the asylum are now dancers / prostitutes.
Not exact matches
«Brainwashing» and subliminal advertising
give us a hint of what psychology may do; the tranquilizers provide a sample of the power of drugs, and
lobotomy a glimpse of the use of surgery to change personality.
But
giving birth is hardly the equivalent of a frontal
lobotomy.
Given the entrenched rivalries, it might take a mass
lobotomy, maybe at that spanking new operating suite at Benedictine.
The new award is
given to a writer who has managed to complete a novel after a frontal
lobotomy.
Give that guy a
lobotomy already.
Although some practices were dreadful — in human medicine people would
give morphine to their teething babies and treat mood disorders with
lobotomies!