The Magdalene Sisters
“ The Magdalene Sisters” is a thoroughly mind-provoking film about 3 young women who, under tragic circumstances,are sent to the asylum as they are considered the “fallen” women in 1964. The asylum is run like prisons and young girls are forced to do workhouse laundry and hard labor. There is another woman named Crispina, who is more vulnerable and tragic because she has mental problem. She experiences something horrific and does not have the mental or emotional intelligence to be able to properly express herself. That is what makes her seem to be more pathetic.
First of all, Crispina, an unwed mother whose sister adopts the little boy, often bringing him to the gates so that she can see him.She cannot live with her son, even talk to him normally like other parents and children. What she can do is only praying through her Saint Christopher to …