The Magdalene Sisters
The Magdalene Sisters is a 2002 film written and directed by Peter Mullan, about three teenage girls who were sent to Magdalene Asylums, also known as Magdalene Laundries, homes for women who were labeled as fallen by their families or society. The homes were maintained by individual religious orders in the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland.
Set in Ireland, beginning in 1964, socalled fallen women were considered sinners who needed to be redeemed. The film follows the stories of four young women Margaret raped by her cousin, Bernadette too beautiful and coquettish, Rose an unmarried mother and Crispina an intellectually disabled unmarried mother who are all forced by their families or caretakers into the Magdalene Asylum. The film details the disastrous lives of the four girls whilst they are inmates of the laundries, portraying their harsh daily regimen, their squalid living conditions and the oppressive nature of the Catholic faith at the time.Each woman suffers unspeakable cruelty and violence from the Mother Superior, Sister Bridget, despite her gentlefaced appearance and outwardly softspoken demeanour. She is characterized as sadistic and almost inhuman at times, as conveyed through her merciless beating of Rose in full view of Bernadette, or when she mockingly laughs at Una as she hopelessly clutches at her fallen hair locks. ........
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