What I specifically want to discuss is the movie The Magdealene Sisters, made in the early '90s. It was an extremely difficult, yet captivating movie experience. It is movies like this that really are more of an experience than anything else.
The basis of the film was Catholicism. It took place in the '60s and was about girls who were sent away by their parents to a place run by Nuns because they were accused (many unfairly) of having sex or having illegitimate children, etc. Stuff shunned by devote Catholics. The Nuns did unthinkable things to them and the girls were sentenced to live there to repent for their sins until they died--their whole lives. Needless to say, it really puts life in perspective.
The film itself is a masterpiece. It does what a film is really supposed to do: transport someone to another world, good or bad, and put them in the situations of what the characters went through. To sympathize with the characters so the message really gets across. The film makes its audience feel very much there with these girls suffering and makes the audience feel their pain, not to mention incredible sorrow, for them.
Many of the shots were simply beautiful. They were creative and unique, but also very symbolic of what the audience should be feeling and thinking about. This is definitely a movie I can see watching in a film course and writing an analytical paper on. But more than anything, the movie fulfilled its role of making a terrible part in Ireland's, and Catholicism's history, public. To make people aware of an issue through real life stories and scenarios is a powerful thing, and this movie not only does that, but succeeds, which is the whole point of movies to begin with.
Anyway, it is a great film if you're ever in the mood for something powerful, yet depressing, but very real.
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