what a buch of bull
you see nobody cares about where she really came from she came from norway house manitoba my town anf the white men those peaple calling us sqauws are the sqauws those pricks are making us lose are natrive women
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MovieChat Forums > Conspiracy of Silence (1992) Discussion > what a buch of bull
I care where she came from, and I care what happened to her. It's revolting and shameful. I watched this movie when it first aired, and there isn't a day that goes by that I don't think about what happened to Helen and how the town covered up her murder. I still can't believe Colgan and Manger walked free.
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I saw the movie too and it was sick, mostly the way some of the towns people talked about it. I don't know if this is true or now, but there was one guy who was stoned out of his mind and passed out, was that true? As sick as I found that, I did feel a little bad for that one guy who seemed like he wanted to tell someone but was pressured not to. Is that true, the alcoholic? And the "Upstanding guy," I just wanted to wipe that smirk off his face.
I am mainly asking for clarification on the two guys that were not convicted. Because the movie seemed to indicate that one of them wanted to come forward, Lee I think, and the other guy was so stoned that he passed out and didn't remember it. That still is no excuse for not saying something. Can you or anyone clarify that because I don't know how accurate the movie was in regards to that.
It was/is a very haunting movie and it should be. People think that Americans are so terrible and yes, there are many in the US that are just as bad and I hope that the day will come where we can face up to wrongs of the past and make a willing effort NOT to do them again.
I am not sure about all of the facts versus the tv movie, but didn't Colgan try to come forward a couple of times or something? I never got why it was that it seemed to really bother him but he went along with his friend's dad's attorney and didn't say a word. Or, what is really messed up is that the entire town was silent about it, for those who knew what happened, to not say anything and then send him screw drivers as "gifts" to "punish" him for something he was a part of and never once told authorities or anyone.
That bugged me because I hate pretentiousness and the idea of knowing but not really "knowing." Its a crock. I would have confronted him about it and asked and then would have told him to talk about it to the people that needed to hear about it, namely the police.
As for the other guy, I was never quite sure what his involvement was. I know he was there when it happened but I am unclear as to how aware he was as far as what was going on and what they were doing to her. Wasn't he really wasted or something? I am not excusing him of any wrongdoing but do you know if that part of the story when he tells Colgan that he did not remember anything from that night? The trial occurred just right after I graduated HS and we did not have internet then.
I disagree and agree. I disagree that no one cares about her, where she was from and what happened to her. Maybe not everyone such as the ignorant, knuckle dragging part of North America, but I do as a woman and a human being. I remember watching it and for most of the movie I had tears coming down my face because I thought Canadians would be different, better than the US is/was.
It made me think back to when I was that age and made me think of who I was and I was the kind of person that would have befriended her and the other Crees and I would have spoken up if I knew or heard anything.
The part with her mother was probably the hardest for me because of what I had going on in my own life at the time. I can't think of it without tearing up because no mother wants to outlive their children and no mother should ever have to lose a child the way she did, and with the attitudes of the townspeople.
I have spoken up many times for things, while not this terrible, bad enough that it needed to stop and brought to someone's attention and I have paid the price for it too because many do not want to hear things that bust up their delusion of what they think things are and how they actually are. I may never do anything the world will remember, but I hope that I have done the right thing by people and I hope that I will never stop. I failed miserably once and wish to whomever that I could go back and do it over.