Oranges and Sunshine is based on a true story of English social worker Margaret Humpheries, who discovers the truth about the forced child migration that occurred for decades. Young children in care homes and orphanages in the UK, were often told that their parents were dead and were shipped to Australia, Canada and New Zealand. There they grew up in care homes and were often forced into horrible living conditions and physically, mentally or sexually abused.
It was an interesting watch, as most of the movie was set in the late 80s and doing research must have been so much harder with no internet, computers and cellphones. Considering how easy it is research anything 30 years later it would be a totally different story if it occurred today.
Oh and now I am writing this up, it came up that I must have seen this before and I totally don't remember. It is hard being middle aged. 4/5
2 comments:
I’d be interested to learn who was behind these forced migrations; whether it was the government, or the orphanages hoping to make money. What a terrible thing to do, even if the child had a good life afterward.
Sounds like one I might enjoy, but if you have seen it before and only remembered later.... perhaps it is not that remarkable
Be interesting to see if this shows up. Perhaps I have fixed the glitch myself. 😁
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