Because I don't rate movies based on my personal convictions, I have to (begrudgingly) admit this is a very good movie.
This was the first and only time I had ever wanted to walk out of a movie because it's directed, acted, and written so painfully well that you can't help but feel yourself drawn into the lives of these women. This movie does absolute justice to the women who had to endure life at the mercy of the Magdalene sisters. It's not a campy story of the human spirit. It's an actual invitation to experience how wretched "fallen women's" lives once were in 1960s Ireland.
To clarify, I wanted to leave the theater because I was so convinced by the picture, I almost felt as though I was IN the convent.
I don't recommend this movie for those sensitive about women's issues (like me), but if you really want to see how "drama" can border on "horror," by all means, rent it.
This was the first and only time I had ever wanted to walk out of a movie because it's directed, acted, and written so painfully well that you can't help but feel yourself drawn into the lives of these women. This movie does absolute justice to the women who had to endure life at the mercy of the Magdalene sisters. It's not a campy story of the human spirit. It's an actual invitation to experience how wretched "fallen women's" lives once were in 1960s Ireland.
To clarify, I wanted to leave the theater because I was so convinced by the picture, I almost felt as though I was IN the convent.
I don't recommend this movie for those sensitive about women's issues (like me), but if you really want to see how "drama" can border on "horror," by all means, rent it.