A movie people in this forum will enjoy, I think. I found it at Redbox. I didn't put it in the movie reviews because, while this is a review, it's also a statement about Catholicism and a revealing drama about the Irish Catholic Church's sordid practice of selling babies of unwed mothers against the mothers' consent back in the 1950s and before. While the practice is no longer being done as far as we know, the Church was still covering this shit up until a few years ago. An investigative journalist from the UK broke the story around 2006, I think.
Put out by the BBC, it follows an atheist journalist and an aging Catholic mother as they try to locate her now adult son that was taken from her by the Church. After a slough of faith based bullshit at the theaters, this true story felt like a breath of fresh air. Although, I was generally pissed off during the movie, I felt vindicated by the ending. I'd give it a 10/10.
Mum went to see this with a friend, she said she cried at some points in the movie, I think because she felt similar at one point in her life with the loss of her son.
Funny isn't it, how Christians produce dozens of crappy movies, made because they fear people outside of there establishment who think differently to them. And yet one movie genuinely aims to tell a heartfelt story which shows up the church in the process tugs at more heart strings then anything Christianity can shit out.
We need more movies made that expose the hard hearted and cold nature of these nuns that will separate families so willingly and be so unrepentant about it. Somebody needs to do a movie of Sister Teresa that exposes her for the monster she was.
Quote from: stromboli on October 26, 2014, 09:56:00 PM
We need more movies made that expose the hard hearted and cold nature of these nuns that will separate families so willingly and be so unrepentant about it. Somebody needs to do a movie of Sister Teresa that exposes her for the monster she was.
Yeah, I'd like a Sister Teresa movie too, but I think most people still think she was a saint. An accurate biographical film may be just too shocking for most people to accept.
How about the nuns who broke my mother's left hand and forced her to write with her right hand?
I recently watched this movie, and was not surprised, after finding out why my wife's cousin left the Dominican Order. People that are faithful are easily controlled by authority figures, this includes the military that are even able to teach people to kill other humans with their political cult :eek: :axe:.
Quote from: AllPurposeAtheist on October 27, 2014, 12:19:58 PM
How about the nuns who broke my mother's left hand and forced her to write with her right hand?
Oh crap O.o, thats horrible.
Nuns are the fucking worst, a very few, small percentage of them might try to act like decent human beings, but there are more horror stories of evil nuns when you research into it then good ones.
A couple of times during the movie I wanted to hit Judy Dench over the head. The nuns would be lying and manipulating, or being such bitches to her, and she would constantly tell the journalist, "There only trying to be helpful." Every time, they did something shitty, she would give them a pass. I think I've heard that behavior as hugging your executioner.
I can understand people ignoring the sins of the church, up to a point. Or giving the church the benefit of the doubt, up to a point. But the woman in the movie was being treated so rotten and she was still blind as a bat to the atrocities being committed. I suppose when you've never experienced a church that was honest and respectful, you just accept that as normal, and since it's a church, you assume it's morality is above reproach no matter how foul it is.
Quote from: SGOS on October 27, 2014, 03:29:15 PM
I can understand people ignoring the sins of the church, up to a point. Or giving the church the benefit of the doubt, up to a point. But the woman in the movie was being treated so rotten and she was still blind as a bat to the atrocities being committed. I suppose when you've never experienced a church that was honest and respectful, you just accept that as normal, and since it's a church, you assume it's morality is above reproach no matter how foul it is.
Sounds very similar to the truth behind mother Teresa, who was always made out by the media to be a kind loving woman, but the reality was she was a heartless monster who ignored her changes and wards in the hospitals she had made, were countless people died slowly and painfully while she squandered the money donated to her hospitals on herself.