Did you watch the movie Magdalene Sisters?

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I did catch this movie - on PPV I think? It’s been several months since I saw it - January or so?

It was a very painful movie to watch - one young woman has had a child out of wedlock and is consigned to this “convent” as penance for the shame she has brought to her family. Her mother (or maybe it’s the baby’s nanny?) brings the boy once a month or so - but she can’t visit - she can only see him from the yard while her son stands at the gate, where the woman can get glimpses of him growing up. I can’t remember why the mother stops bringing the boy, but I think the woman went insane because of it and ended up in the asylum/jail cells.

Two of the women escape in the end.

Hope.
 
Yes, I saw it. It was disturbing, painful and sad. The thought of those girls/women being left there because no one came for them. The humility they had to endure. I also watched the documentary on the disk. It was an interview with women who had endured this abuse.
 
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I also watched the documentary on the disk. It was an interview with women who had endured this abuse.
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I would like to know more about the documentary on disk?
Do you have a copy? I would like to view it.

The Magdalene Laundries are of the past. For me, to know more now is to learn from the mistakes of the past.

I agree with you. The coldness of dessertion - dessertion from family - and dessetion from community - and dessertion from Church must have been devastating.
 
I think what I found most painful about it, from a male perspective, was the way society, essentially ruled by men, was able to tack its sins on to these women as the “scapegoats” and walk away from them–metaphorically sending them off into the desert. Just as painful was the inability or unwillingness of those running the laundry to recognize this and thus further victimize the women.

A truly disturbing film. You’re right Contemplative, I hope we’ve learned something from it, but we continue to find our scapegoats. 😦

Peace,
John
 
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I would like to know more about the documentary on disk?
Do you have a copy? I would like to view it.

The Magdalene Laundries are of the past. For me, to know more now is to learn from the mistakes of the past.

I agree with you. The coldness of dessertion - dessertion from family - and dessetion from community - and dessertion from Church must have been devastating.
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I rented the movie from Blockbuster. The documentary was on there.

Maggie
 
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I rented the movie from Blockbuster. The documentary was on there.

Maggie
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The video you rented contained two parts…the movie…and the documentary? I see.
 
Powerful film. Hard to believe the last of those laundries was closed in the 1990s…creepy, neh?
 
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