Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by dave c (A) on May 15, 2007 at 05:58:21

This is a documentary written and directed by Amy Berg, a reporter for CNN about Oliver O'Grady, the Catholic priest convected of abusing and raping a huge number of children.
It is possibly the most powerful film you will see all year. Maybe longer.
It is shocking. It is disturbing.
It is underwritten by the bravery and integrity of the victims.
It is all in people's own words.
It expands to condemn the entire catholic church as an organisation which has child abuse institutionalised within it and which will stop at nothing to protect its own.
It may be the best made doco I have seen.
It is very upsetting, not least because of the disarming manner of the priest involved, but his crimes are not in my mind the most shocking thing.
I do not want to give clues away.
I think this film should be seen by every single person here. And every one else.
If ever a film could be described as important, then this may be it.