The film itself is controversial and has been criticized by the Holy See from the Vatican, because its theme is about the shady of theocracy, and exposing itself deeply hurts the pain of religious people. However, it is the profound portrayal of the film "Madeleine Fallen Girl", which is adapted from a real record, that can faithfully reflect the shock of the subject matter, and move the audience who has watched this film.
Ireland in 1964 was not as vigorously carrying out sexual liberation movements and prevalent feminism like the Western countries in the outside world. He even a heavy feudal fortress still abiding by the pure rules and precepts of Catholic Puritans, maintaining the darkness of the European Middle Ages. . Girls who give birth out of wedlock and girls who behave unscrupulously will be sent to Madeleine Girls’ Homes across Ireland, supervised by nuns, and atonement for themselves through heavy labor. The four girls in the film were sent to the girls' home for this reason. After being raped, Margarine was falsely accused. Kispinna and Ruth gave birth to unmarried children because they stumbled. Beilit liked to strike up conversations with boys because of their cheerful nature. They were sent to the same Madeleine house for this and other reasons. In the girls' home.
In such a depressed and isolated girls’ home, nuns and priests, so-called servants of God, became the rulers of this small kingdom in the name of religious sacredness, and the poor girls became their slaves. Exploiting their labor force to gather money for the rulers. And as rulers, nuns and priests can ignore any request of girls, and as rulers, they can whipped them, make fun of them, or even make sexual demands. The girls are powerless to resist and are suffering from both physical and psychological torture. In fact, this situation is not only caused by the hypocrisy of Catholicism. On the other hand, the director Peter Mullan is not only criticizing Catholicism, but also criticizing the parents of those girls who have been eroded by feudal religion. Lost the feeling of affection, Ma Lin and cold. Just like in the movie, the girl Oona fled the girls' home because of homesickness, but was beaten up by his father and sent back to the girls' home. This seems to mean that these girls have been abandoned by this society, and they will have nowhere to go even if they escape.
Faced with such a different situation, people face different attitudes because of their own characteristics. For example, although Margarine was wronged, as a devout Catholic, she faced it with a tolerant attitude, but Accept silently. Until one day when she saw the ugly side of the goddess goddess, she took revenge for the first time, but only to punish them for their unfaithfulness to God, but she had no power to resist. Faced with the chance of fleeing, she still lacked courage in the end. The biggest resistance she could against the rulers of the nuns was to kneel and pray to force the nuns to give way. Unlike her, Beilit was born with a rebellious spirit and courage to fight. She tried to escape from the beginning, and even though she failed, she did not give up. In the end, she finally escaped the girls’ home with Ruth. In the process, she was full of hatred for feudal religions, and almost exploded with suppressed anger for a long time, knocking the nuns to the ground. At this point, Belit possessed The temperament of a revolutionary. Ruth is a weak and kind person, and she finally saw through the true face of those nun rulers. She didn't have the courage to resist, but under the guidance of Beilit, she mustered up the courage and escaped from the girls' home.
Compared with the above three girls who finally managed to leave the monastery, Kispinna's situation is the saddest. She is like the sister-in-law of Xianglin described by the Chinese writer Lu Xun. She firmly believes that she has sinned badly, and she will suffer in it with all her heart, and she will even be so stupid as to perform oral sex for the priest and think that she is serving God. She had been numb and unconscious by the erosion of feudal religion, she could only bear it and lost the ability to resist, and eventually died tragically in the lunatic asylum at the age of 25.
If the fault requires a lifetime to redeem, everything would be too cruel. It has been many years since we have been away from the darkness of medieval religion, and the reformation has been for many years, but there are still events in this world where religions curb and distort human nature. How can this be ignorant? It was not until 1996 that the last girls' home was closed, during which at least 30,000 Irish girls were sent to this hell under the sacred guise. Regardless of the girl who died in it, at the end of the film, Belit met a nun on the street. She suddenly had an indescribable pain. I want to say how the cruel experience in the girls’ home will affect those girls’ lives. Maybe it's like a nightmare that often appears, indelible.
Director Peter Mullan is an actor and has participated in "Guessing the Train", "Shallow Grave", and "Brave Heart". Watching these movies can feel that Mulan is a typical Scot. He is not particularly famous as an actor, but he seems quite successful as a director. In this movie, Mulan did not use too many technical things, but the story based on real material is indeed shocking enough, and Mulan's handling of details is also very good. In expressing the nun's greed and ruthlessness, the rolls of banknotes were hidden in a can, and the last part of the nun's anger and anger when she couldn't find the key to ask questions to Lucy.
Although these have become history, there are still many evils or pains that remain hidden in the dust, and some may continue to continue, still torturing and harming the controlled people. All films with realistic themes like "Madeleine Fallen Girl" can always play an immeasurable meaning. We need such films to give us a vigilance and a scrutiny.
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