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Okay, this movie was okay, but I thought it was kind of... I don't know the word for it. It didn't explain a lot of things, like why Katie was so obsessed with plastic, or the whole 'telling people what she wanted with her eyes' kind of thing. And what was with the bus driver I-hesitate-to-call-it-a-sub-plot? I dunno.

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there's a book about this that i'd read for psychology class ("Genie: A Scientific Tragedy" by russ rymer)

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what sad movie and genie father is a *beep* for what he did to his daughter

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You have to understand the human body's effects of being completely isolated from society and social interactions between people, ultimately language. At my school in the new Theory of Knowledge class, we watched a documentary on this. There was real footage and I can honestly say it is the most disturbing and cruel thing I have seen in my life.

Why did the father do it? After the father's mother died, he suffered a depression illness. He lost his trust in society, thus deciding to completely isolate his daughter from it. She was locked in a room and strapped to a chair, constantly, 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. The father, through intimidation, made his wife and oldest son not interact with her at all, or at least as possible.

She develeoped a 'bunny' hop rather than a walk and m.aasterbated very excessively. Scientists are debating over the theory that states the human mind cannot learn or produce whole sentences after the age of five, but it was almost proven completely true in Genie's case. The furthest she ever got was "applesauce store buy".

One day, Genie's mother snapped and decided to take her to the welfare department where the authorities took over. The father then shot himself in the head. One of the most disturbing things about this incident is that, when the mother was accused of child abuse, Genie was abused in almost all of her 6 foster homes. She refused to open her mouth after she was beaten by one of her foster parents after vomitting. I find it hard to understand how people can treat someone who has been through the ultimate trauma so badly, especially knowing the fact that she will NEVER live a normal life and the first 13 years of her life have resulted in horrible mental scarring that will never heal.

She is often mistaken for being mentally retarted, but there is no real word for the state that she is constantly in, as she is not autistic. In my opinion, the mother is to blame. This is because she should have taken responsibility over her daughter. I understand that the father was abusing her as well, but surely you would make the risk of being beaten to save your daughter's mental health.

It's a horrible fact to know that Genie could have been a beautiful young girl, but instead remained in complete isolation for 13 years. Very tragic.

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I actually just watched a documentary on Genie today in my Grade 11 Socilogy class. I find feral children extremely interesting. It's horrible how this all happen. It's so inhuman and it's overwhelming when you think about the fact that she was in that room for about 12(?) years in complete isolation. It is indeed very tragic. I'll be sure to pick up this movie sometime, as well as "The Wild Child".

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The bus driver thing - apparently she was sexually abused by several people - the butcher being one and the bus driver being hte other. Thats why when she drew the picture of her and some man she drew their sexual attributes as well, which is a sign of abuse. THey didn't know for sure, but there was speculation. And as she didn't know right from wrong, she thought what was happening was okay.

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Does anyone else find it unrealistic that Katie/Genie started her periods in the film? As shown in a documentary her brain was extremely small and underdeveloped, as well as her being as small as a 7 year old child, I don't think she'd have started them cause the brain's hypothalamus controls when periods start, after puberty, if she was that deprived mentally.

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Hi, I'm the director of the film Mockingbird Don't Sing.

Genie did have her period as depicted in the film - or at least at that precise age.

The film was meticulously researched for two years and that was a turning point of the story so I'm absolutely certain it is correct.

Thanks for seeing the film and bothering to comment.

Oh and, by the way, her brain was not small and udnerdeveloped. I think you may have misinterpreted the documentary.

Anyway, best wishes,

Harry

Harry Bromley-Davenport.

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I would have that because her growth was stunted and such, that she wouldn't have been able to have her period?

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apparently she was sexually abused by several people - the butcher being one and the bus driver being hte other.


How could they have had the time to abuse her? She only saw the bus driver on her way to and from school, and surely you're not trying to make the case that the abuse happened on the bus?
And as far as the butcher goes, she only saw him when she went to his store, always followed by Sandra or someone else.

As far as I could tell from the movie Sandra never got to go anywhere without being supervised by either her foster family, mother or by Sandra. There is no way anyone could have had any opportunity to sexually abuse after being taken care of by the social services.

I think the most likely explanation here is that she was sexually abused by her father or brother while she was still kept captive in the basement. My bet would be it was her father.

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Sounds like your fantasy.

Just because someone is nice to a girl does not mean they want to abuse her.



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