Get riled just thinking about it
I don't think I've ever seen a movie that left me more riled. I remember watching this movie on CBC years and years ago. I still burn with hatred toward the government that thought it had the right to break up a family and arrest and beat the father for trying to rescue his children from the system.
As well done as this movie was, just thinking about it now gets me riled up, so this is a movie I will probably avoid watching again for the sake of my blood pressure.
This movie illustrates what happens when children are considered subhuman by the government. They can be taken from their families on the flimsiest of pretext and subject to all kinds of abuse. This movie illustrates the need to allow children their rights and dignity as human beings.
I know this movie is Canadian, but the synopsis said it's about a California family. I could have sworn it was set in Quebec. Has the family or their descendants ever sued the government for rights violations?
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Give me liberty, or give me death!