awful movie

This movie is one of the greats and one of my all time favorites. You must be too young to understand. Why didn't you like it?

What these women went through was a living hell. (It is a true story.) Imagine the horrors of what they had to endure. They were imprisoned against their will. They had no rights. This was at a time when women had almost no power anyway and what little identity they had was stripped from them. They were starved, beaten, raped, and generally tortured and treated like dogs. They feared every living moment. There was no communication with the outside world - no cell phones, GPS or internet. No one even knew of their plight.

The only thing they had to hold onto was each other and the music they had inside. They had to learn it in secret. It gave them the will to survive. Many didn't make it and died a horrible death in that Godforsaken place. It was the only thing they had to hold onto that the Japanese could not take away from them. Music is a powerful thing, the harmonic connection between all living things. It gave them dignity and gave them hope and was the thing that saved (some of) their lives.

Also, the performances were wonderful by some of the greatest actresses of our time. I'd say do some research about the real women of this story. Then try watching it again with an open mind.


"Whoever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."

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I guess this just proves that both public and parochial schools are now turning out the same brainless airheads who have no ability to think about nothing more important than what color thong to wear the next morning...

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