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Laura spent the happiest years of her childhood growing up in an orphanage by the seaside, cared for by the staff and fellow orphans whom she loved as brothers and sisters.
Now, thirty years later, she returns with her husband Carlos and Simon, their 7-year-old son, with a dream of restoring and reopening the long-abandoned orphanage as a home for disabled children. The new home and mysterious surroundings awaken Simon's imagination, and the boy starts to spin a web of fantastic tales and not-so-innocent games... a troubling web that begins to disturb Laura, drawing her into the child's strange universe which resonates with echoes of long-forgotten, deeply troubling memories of her own childhood. As the opening day draws near, tension builds within the family.
Carlos remains sceptical, believing that Simon is making everything up in a desperate bid for attention. But Laura slowly becomes convinced that something long-hidden and terrible is lurking in the old house, something waiting to emerge and inflict appalling damage on her family
I wonder if it's time for a "re-make"?
Considering so many people do not care for the "supernatural" in this sort of movie-thriller, I wonder if there are any movie-makers willing to do an orphange film based on reality?
In case anyone needs a story-plot to outline, those "with film" might be interested in following this piece about Jersey by Liz Davies:
Where is the happy ending?
Over the years I have seen many films and even the most disturbing ones have at least some resolution in the end. Although it goes against reality, in most films there is some triumph of good over evil.
That observation doesn't mean I am against a film about Haut de la Garenne, in fact I am all for it and I am all for a film which shows how wrong-doers get away with their practices, but I also believe not many people want to buy a ticket to reality and rather pay for a 120 minute fantasy in which some super hero saves the world from tyranny and disaster.
Looks better than "The Orphan"
I'll have to look for this to watch, but I wanted to share my thoughts on orphans and orphanages.
We're supposed to believe the super-heroes are the ones who rescue the poor children from the orphanage. But no one is watching the behind-the-scenes activity. Each time a super-hero rescues and "saves" a child, a few more "poor children" are slipped in the back-door, so more can be sold to the nice white strangers.
What good are super-heroes, if they leave without making sure the people inside the scary doors aren't doing the same damn thing they always did to the young and the vulnerable?
There are no heroes in adoption. There's only a bunch of people feeling good about themselves because they did the absolute bare minimum to improve an overwhelming problem. The ghosts do not lie.