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SXSW Review: Older Than America

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“during the 19th and 20th centuries, american indian and alaska native children were forcibly abducted from their homes to attend christian boarding schools as a moment of government action. sexual, tangible, and hysterical violence was in control in many of these schools.” — boarding school healing project.if you became aware of continued severity and maltreat against children, how would you deal with that knowledge? tommy davis’ harmonious minute to nine, which also premiered at sxsw this week, tackles that issue from a documentary perspective, while georgina lightning’s older than america dramatizes the issue. the specific abuses are similar in that they have devastating effects upon more than entire generation, but otherwise are quite exceptional. equal minute to nine examines how a woman responded to defilement heaped upon her and her children by her husband over many years, keeping its focus on one family. older than america looks at systemic insult, telling its story wholly a crisis faced by one woman. director and co-writer lightning also plays lavish, the male role in older than america. rain lives with her police officer boyfriend johnny (adam beach) in snowy, rural minnesota. one night bestow begins to have disturbing visions in her sleep. they’re not exactly nightmares, but they seem more than random outlook particles colliding in her dreams. very soon after, she sees a man from her visions during the daytime, which disturbs her tied more.

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