FILM 2233: PHILOMENA (2013)

TRIVIA: There are flashbacks, done with "home movies". Some were created for this movie, and some are footage of Philomena's actual son.

At the beginning of this movie, when Philomena has sex at the fair, the camera pans down to an apple with a bite taken. It's a not-so-subtle reference to the original sin.

Several decades later, partly due to the original book, it became apparent just how common stories like Philomena's were in Ireland before, during, and after the 1950s. Revelations about widespread forced adoptions, and abuse of children and unmarried mothers by the Roman Catholic Church and other religious organizations, have given this movie a much darker undercurrent than originally intended.

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