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Great Film

posted 14 years ago by oldmotem
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I just have two bothersome points.

1) Why would anyone send a person to a foreign land if no one except another patient can interpret for him? (I know...it makes the movie better).

2) Why would any place (even in 1952) let people SMOKE in a TB ward? WHY? I found that to be the most disturbing thing in this whole movie. I have bad respiratory problems myself and those smokers just made me wince and become uncomfortable. Unreal.

But the movie...yes, it's an indie. HAS to be better than mainstream trash. It most definitely is. 9/10.

[–] paulapantsdown 13 years ago

Sorry, but on both of your points; are you serious?
You could smoke in Hospitals even in my little country up until about 15 yrs ago.
And later than 1952 people were taken from the home land for many reasons, they didn't care that no one could speak for them.

'I say I'm dead.. and I move'

[–] jbrains 10 years ago

The Canadian (and Quebec) government probably genuinely believed that the good they did the Inuit by trying to heal them outweighed the bad they did by putting them in such an unfamiliar situation. Moreover, Canadians in general and Catholics in particular, by and large, probably believed that it was their duty to try to heal the ill, and that the Inuit should live as they do.

As for smoking, I'm always reminded of the line from JFK --

- "Do you mind if I smoke?" -"How could I stop you?"

It was a different time.