我们曾是孩子 We Were Children(2012)
又名: 那时我们还小
导演: Tim Wolochatiuk
编剧: Jason Sherman
类型: 剧情
制片国家/地区: 加拿大
上映日期: 2022-08-31(中国大陆) 2012-03-03(加拿大（温哥华国际电影节）)
片长: 85分钟 IMDb: tt1934472 豆瓣评分：0 下载地址：迅雷下载
简介：
- 直至1996年有超过130年的时间，超过十万名加拿大原住民被合法要求上政府资助的基督教学校，那时全加拿大有超过80间这样的寄宿学校，大多数孩童被送到离家遥远的学校，与家人和原生土地分别，他们除了忍受暴力、肉体折磨、心灵羞辱，自生文化也遭到抹灭。这些学校是同化政策的其中一环，旨在让原住民融入「加拿大社会」，政府建立这些学校的目的就是希望能将加拿大原住民的民族性从孩童心中抹除，《那时我们还小》的主角就是当时就学的两位学生，他们自我发声讲出骇人的亲身经历。
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影评：
- My heart was broken after watching this full of sad, gloomy, and tragedy movie, and it takes me a long time to recovery.
This movie reveals the hidden history of the early Canada. According to IMDb (1990-2015), More than 100,000 aboriginal children in Canada were forced to attend the church-run residential schools for over 130 years, and until 1996, the Canadian government abolished this cruel regulation and apologized publicly for had having this long period shameful history. Through this movie, people not only can see how fearful and conflicted the children are, but also can see the inhumanity and cold-blooded of some priests and sisters at that time. The church should be the place where gives people peace, flushes people’s soul, and washes away the dust. People always do confession and pray in the church because they want to become the better ones that are full of mercy and tolerant. However, in this movie, the priests and the sisters are not merciful at all. They treat children like animals. They always punish them by spanking, even kneeling down with asking them to hold their tongues for a long time just because children are refusable to speak English. At that age, church was governed by Canadian government, so the priests and the sisters had the power to do anything, and everyone in the residential school should listen to them. The nurse in the residential school is evil as well to children, when Lyna told what she saw last night to the nurse, the nurse pretended she knew nothing, and even slapping Lyna for she did not eat anything. What is more, even the relatives of the children do believe that sending children to residential school is a wise choice because children need to gain knowledge, and being in that place is really helpful for them. When children talk about the food and their miserable situation in school, nobody believes what they say. It can be seen that the governed-run church has the huge power dominating the education of the aboriginal children in those years in Canada.
Moreover, in terms of the mental health of the young children, sending young children to residential school and trying to use all ways to remove their own culture is an absolutely a harmful behavior. On the one hand, children should not be separated with their parents, for they need to be cared carefully to make possibility to build children a good character in the future. What children need is not only the basic demanding like food, they also need warm, attention, and love from homes. The government has the right to make children go to school, but it does not have the right depriving their happiness with family. On the other hand, there exists bias, racial discrimination, sexual abuse, and all the cruel things in the church. It is not supposed to happen, but children suffer a lot from it and which leaves them a bad memory. When Lyna and Glen are recalling their story, we can see there still is a lingering shadow in their the most inner hearts.
This is a film that makes people having many kinds of complicated emotions, like, anger, resentment, sadness, etc. The whole movie tone is dark and gloomy. The director tries to restore the true story by making Lyna and Glen tell their story in flashback and make audience more touchy. Lyna and Glen use many negative words to express their feeling in the movie, like, pain and anger. Those lines are combined with the deep dark music, heightening an atmosphere that makes audience can feel what Lyna and Glen feel. Also, people can see a lot of scenes related to the horse, that is a metaphor, representing home somehow. Once something has been recalled of pain by Lyna and Glen, the horse comes out. Horses are totally free, they eat grass on the grassland, they close to the nature and very carefree, and it is what Lyna and Glen are dreaming of. However, they can not neither back home nor be with their family, it is a feeling that just like been imprisoned, and they suffer a lot, so many children kill themselves after being released from schools. However, at the end of the film, the old Glen says, the anger is gone. Although sadness still exists, they hope their story can be known and believed by more people, and the tragedy will not happen again.
The movie was ended with the apology by Stephen Harper, the president of Canada. He admitted this shameful history in back years, and regretted for it. All the residential schools were closed in 1996, Lyna and Glen did not give up their lives. Lyna works for the aboriginal children to protect them and to defend for them. Both Glen and Lyna know that, only by getting peace of mind for better living, can they get one more chance freedom.
References
IMDb. (1990-2015) . We were children. Plot summary.
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请勿转载，谢谢！ history of indigenous people-residental school
do not get out of the bed, remember, she can sees you through the window..
i dont undersand why they allowed to speak french and i am not allowed to speak my language
they wash my hair with yellow powder（这是啥(⊙_⊙)?你们用啥给小孩子洗澡啊我靠）cut my hair, something is take away from me, human, sense of self
give each kid a number, dehumanlize them
force them to speak english instead of their own language and claim it is god's language. WTF真是对宗教这种东西一点好感都没有
a girl washes her hands over and over because she think she is not white enough=dirty
one of the punishment of saying they own language is hold the tone for half an hour, and if it goes back that's another half hour.
i don't understand why we are not allowed to talk and touch each other
i wonder why boys are naked and bend over, i know something bad happend but i don't know what it was
if they are asking for go back to home will be locked up in the basement
a lot of the kids were being raped, by prist
i remember that when they told us that he was gone, it was just like there was a load that lifted, and i didn't have to worry anymore about the rest of the boys and girls being raped in the infirmary, which was suppose to be the place where we went to heal...
heartbreaking，年过半百的人回忆起这些来还止不住流泪,这特么都什么人
i don't know what kind of god they have that loves to hurt another human being
he'll never hurt you again, he is going to another school WTF!? AND WHAT? CONTINUE HURT OTHERS?
somethings you just learn to accept you have no control over-learning hopeless
someday, people will listen, someday, people will believe.
and if they don't, i can always tell my story. what happened there, it didn't have to happen
the last indian residential school closed in 1996..