With the contemplation of The woman on the wall At least two things are confirmed: that the BBC continues to be one of the best producers of television series and that a part of the Catholic Church is responsible for the greatest cruelties imaginable. Regarding the quality of the series, just watch it and appreciate the extraordinary performance of Ruth Wilson, its protagonist, and the sober realization and production in a small Irish coastal town in County Galway.
About the atrocities of a part of the Catholic Church, the series reports in great detail what daily life was like in one of the six “Magdalene laundries” that existed in Ireland until the mid-nineties, one of which was in the town of our protagonist, an institution run by Catholic nuns and in which young single mothers or what were considered “deviant women” worked in a regime of slavery. But the cruelty was not only the employment relationship. When young women gave birth, their children were taken from them at birth, who were later sold to the highest bidder.
All this may seem like a monstrosity from the feverish minds of Joe Murtagh and Jamie Hannigan, the screenwriters of the six chapters of The woman on the wall which SkyShowtime shows (also on Movistar Plus+), but reality surpasses fiction, once again. In 2013, the Prime Minister of Ireland, Enda Kenny, apologized for the decades of stigma and harsh conditions in the so-called “Magdalene laundries,” a system of asylums run by Catholic nuns, where women were forced to work. perform hard physical work. Some 10,000 young women, many of them single mothers, were detained and forced to work in these institutions that began operating in the 1920s and were still in force in the 1990s, according to a government report collected at the time by the BBC.
In The woman on the wall The character played by Ruth Wilson was one of the victims of the nuns and her perseverance, in collaboration with the Dublin inspector played by Daryl McCormack, in the search for her stolen daughter thirty years ago is what manages to reveal the cruelty of an institution ecclesiastical institution that had the collaboration of the Government. A more than notable series that also allows us to better understand the impiety to which human beings can reach.
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