Canada’s Residential School Legacy | Fly On The Wall

November. 04,2021

Rating：

5.5

Genre：

Documentary

Keywords：

Indigenous Environment Social Justice

Trailer Synopsis Cast

“The most notorious of the supervisors molested countless boys. It was sexually very depraving.” For more than 100 years, thousands of Indigenous children died while in Canada’s residential school system. Pacheedaht Elder Bill Jones survived, but he, like many others, experienced years of beatings and sexual abuse. The scandal has finally brought the Indigenous rights struggle into focus, none more so than at Fairy Creek, an area of forest on First Nations land that protesters are desperately trying to prevent from falling into the hands of logging companies.

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Reviews

Lovesusti

2021/11/04

The Worst Film Ever

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Glucedee

2021/11/05

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

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Abbigail Bush

2021/11/06

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

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Tymon Sutton

2021/11/07

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

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