The Magdalene Sisters

I loved this movie. My favorite was the end when she well nevermind.

Updated On: 3/12/05 at 01:22 PM

It was an amazing amazing movie. Heartwrenching, powerful, well acted, well done. I was in awe.

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Absolutely - this is one of those movies that teaches not only about history, but, to be cliche, the power of the human spirit. However, just thinking about the movie disgusts me - it makes me think about how religion can be SO corrupted.

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This is an incredible, moving, heartwrenching film. Geraldine McEwan is chilling.

Sueleen I will listen to the song this week.

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EXCELLENT! Turn the ringer on the phone off, fix yourself whatever you need to be right in front of you. You will be riveted for 2 hours.

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I know. It is very emotionaly draining. Thats why one should have a mojito standing bye.

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you should watch to understand what some women in Ireland were forced to subdue to for no reason -- I had a great aunt who was sent to the laundry and kept there for 11 years-- this film is a non-flinching look at a form of slavery that was taking place only 20 years ago....it should be seen....

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Updated On: 5/2/05 at 10:33 PM

Rath did you watch it? What did you think?

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I loved it. It's very powerful.

MAGDALENE LAUNDRIES
By Joni Mitchell

I was an unmarried girl
I'd just turned twenty-seven
When they sent me to the sisters
For the way men looked at me
Branded as a jezebel
I knew I was not bound for Heaven
I'd be cast in shame
Into the Magdalene laundries

Most girls come here pregnant
Some by their own fathers
Bridget got that belly
By her parish priest
We're trying to get things white as snow
All of us woe-begotten-daughters
In the streaming stains
Of the Magdalene laundries

Prostitutes and destitutes
And temptresses like me--
Fallen women--
Sentenced into dreamless drudgery ...
Why do they call this heartless place
Our Lady of Charity?
Oh charity!

These bloodless brides of Jesus
If they had just once glimpsed their groom
Then they'd know, and they'd drop the stones
Concealed behind their rosaries
They wilt the grass they walk upon
They leech the light out of a room
They'd like to drive us down the drain
At the Magdalene laundries

Peg O'Connell died today
She was a cheeky girl
A flirt
They just stuffed her in a hole!
Surely to God you'd think at least some bells should ring!
One day I'm going to die here too
And they'll plant me in the dirt
Like some lame bulb
That never blooms come any spring
Not any spring
No, not any spring
Not any spring

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Come to think of it sueleen; you are right. No wonder it appealed to me so much.

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