Louisa Mellor Jun 13, 2017
Broken continues with another sad story, but will audiences turn away from drama this bleak?
This review contains spoilers.
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Give me the child and I’ll give you the man, says an old Jesuit adage I’m paraphrasing and probably misattributing, but nonetheless the wisdom stands: what we learn in childhood forms us as adults. Of Broken’s many messages, that’s the loudest.
In childhood, Michael Kerrigan learned there was something wrong with him. He learned to keep quiet. He learned the sexual abuse he suffered was his fault. None of that’s exclusive to Catholicism – those are the lessons all abused children learn and they’re the fastest to sink in. Unlearning them can be the job of a lifetime.
It’s a job that Father Michael,...
Broken continues with another sad story, but will audiences turn away from drama this bleak?
This review contains spoilers.
See related Neill Blomkamp interview: sci-fi shorts and Oats Studios Neill Blomkamp's Oats Studios releases second teaser trailer
Give me the child and I’ll give you the man, says an old Jesuit adage I’m paraphrasing and probably misattributing, but nonetheless the wisdom stands: what we learn in childhood forms us as adults. Of Broken’s many messages, that’s the loudest.
In childhood, Michael Kerrigan learned there was something wrong with him. He learned to keep quiet. He learned the sexual abuse he suffered was his fault. None of that’s exclusive to Catholicism – those are the lessons all abused children learn and they’re the fastest to sink in. Unlearning them can be the job of a lifetime.
It’s a job that Father Michael,...
- 6/13/2017
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