Monday, July 14, 2008

El orfanato

Today was the last day to the first week of classes and I will give Jaqui her props for our afternoon activity. We watched a spanish suspense movie called the Orphanage. Here's the plot, it's twisted, but I loved it:
  •    There was a girl named Laura who lived at an orphanage with five other children. As an adult she adopts a child with AIDS. Along with her husband, Laura buys the orphanage and uses it as a home for kids with special needs. 
  • The son starts playing with imaginary friends. The "imaginary friends" are actually the ghosts of the children who lived in the orphanage with Laura. It turns out after she was adopted the kids had played a trick on the son of one of the orphan caretakers. His face was deformed and his mother made him wear a bag over his head. The kids led him to a cave and took off the bag to see if he would come out and show his face. He did not and when the tide came in, he drowned. The caretaker then poisoned the kids for killing her son, however since Laura was adopted and so she was not killed. 
  • During the opening of the special needs home, Laura's son wants her to come to his friends house, but she says angrily says no, telling the son he needs to stop playing with imaginary friends. The son disappears.
  • In the end, she had accidently killed her son because she locked him in the basement, which was where the deformed child was hidden during his lifetime. She then commits suicide and keeps watch over the ghosts of the orphaned children. 
 AND it was all in spanish. BOOYAW.

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