Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Precious. If you are from a place like that, like I am, it makes you realize we never had a shot.

I am not from a place like that but have taught in schools with children who grew up in poverty. It was such an achingly sad movie for me to watch. And yes those children have such an uphill battle it’s hard to imagine overcoming it.

I watched after leaving my work as a social worker on west side Chicago once I had my first child. I asked my husband to leave and sat in the theater by myself, and released so much sadness and grief of all that I had witnessed and held for my clients. It was brutal to read the case histories (which were unimaginable-- 5 year olds witnessing their 9 year old siblings rape their 4 year old sibling to death) and then meet with the precious innocent faces off the paper. The movie was VERY well done, except for casting Mariah Carey as the social worker. awful casting there.

I replied with Schindler's List, Precious, Spotlight, but need to add:

Attack on Darfur-- omg
Boy in the Striped Pajamas

I couldn't sleep after watching both of these-- must watch, life changing movies.

Anonymous wrote:Precious. If you are from a place like that, like I am, it makes you realize we never had a shot.

I am not from a place like that but have taught in schools with children who grew up in poverty. It was such an achingly sad movie for me to watch. And yes those children have such an uphill battle it’s hard to imagine overcoming it.

Awakenings.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So many great movies that made me both think and feel …


12 years a slave
Dances with wolves
Gorillas in the midst
Sing sing
Babette’s Feast
Life of Pi
Forrest Gump
Diary of Ann Frank
Harriet
Rabbit proof fence
Hotel Rwanda
Queen of Katwe
The boy who harnessed the wind

Also
Slumdog Millionaire
The Room Next Door
Parasite
Companion

I was crying so hard I was shaking after watching Slumdog Millionaire.

Yes me too - that scene when mutilating the kids with acid to make them more compelling beggars still haunts me …

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So many great movies that made me both think and feel …


12 years a slave
Dances with wolves
Gorillas in the midst
Sing sing
Babette’s Feast
Life of Pi
Forrest Gump
Diary of Ann Frank
Harriet
Rabbit proof fence
Hotel Rwanda
Queen of Katwe
The boy who harnessed the wind

Also
Slumdog Millionaire
The Room Next Door
Parasite
Companion

I was crying so hard I was shaking after watching Slumdog Millionaire.

Precious. If you are from a place like that, like I am, it makes you realize we never had a shot.

Anonymous wrote:So many great movies that made me both think and feel …


12 years a slave
Dances with wolves
Gorillas in the midst
Sing sing
Babette’s Feast
Life of Pi
Forrest Gump
Diary of Ann Frank
Harriet
Rabbit proof fence
Hotel Rwanda
Queen of Katwe
The boy who harnessed the wind

Also
Slumdog Millionaire
The Room Next Door
Parasite
Companion