Review of Oranges and Sunshine (2010) by Leena L — 10 Sep 2015

This film sounded interesting. I already thought about watching this couple of years ago, just never got around to it. Emily Watson and social scandal. Should be interesting. And it was. It was a fascinating piece of history that I had no idea about.

I did know about sending criminals to Australia. I also knew about sad history of aboriginal children being sent to camps/homes to be "civilized" and saved from their pagan ways. But I did not know that over 100.

000 children were deported from England throughout the years to be cheap and even slave labour mistreated in the hands of well-doers (charities, monks etc). The were taken away from their misfortunate and "bad" families (single mothers or poor families) who were told they had been adopted.

Heart breaking and utterly interesting. Official apology took place in 2010. Some people still lived in the institutions etc in the 90s! Real life is better than fiction. Always.