贵州省胃肠专科医院:展现人性的光辉:电影《橙和阳光》(预告片)

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Oranges and Sunshine
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这部电影记述了一个真实的故事,社工玛格丽特.汉弗莱生于1944年,她于1986年开始通过调查揭露了英国政府主导的将穷人的孩子转移到海外来减轻政府投注到儿童福利设施的费用的行为,据揭露有150,000 名儿童被政府有组织的转移到了澳大利亚、加拿大、新西兰等其他国家,这些孩子被告知,他们的父母已经死了,而这些孩子的父母则毫不知情,这是当年轰动一时的政府丑闻。
最近我知道了一句话,一句我以前受到的教育所误传的话,那就是“历史是由人民创造的”,这是一句有些问题的话,或者说被“概念化”了,真正的应该是:“历史是由每一个独立的个人所创造的”。这才是这句话的实质。玛格丽特的行动体现了这一点,当年在她的调查及揭露行为过程中想必承受了巨大的压力,毕竟她是在揭露政府的丑闻,但是她没有退缩,法制和社会环境以及她获得的支持让她完成了这一历史行为,她没有倒下,今天以她的调查过程改编的电影的发行更证明了这一点。
为了实现人类社会的公平正义和人类社会的进步,个人与政府的对抗的行为经常出现,我认为这是一种良性的互动,它保持了这个社会体系的健康和活力,这种行为犹如人体的免疫系统,在自主的消灭和阻止一些有害病菌的繁衍,在这过程中这些个人是要付出代价的,一些是时间,财产,或者名誉,甚至生命,但是如果一些代价实在太大,例如生命的失去,名誉的诽谤,这往往让一个个社会中的白细胞们承受更多的伤害,而当白细胞受伤过度,又因为这些白细胞的“榜样作用”使得没人再愿意做白细胞的时候,这个社会机体就将会崩溃,艾滋病就是这样。
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Oranges and Sunshine tells the true story of Margaret Humphreys (Emily Watson), a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovered one of the most significant social scandals in recent times: The forced migration of children from the United Kingdom to Australia. For decades the British government had covered up the fact that 130,000 children in care had been sent abroad to commonwealth countries, mainly Australia.
Children as young as four had been told that their parents were dead, and were sent to children's homes on the other side of the world. Many were subjected to appalling abuse. They were promised oranges and sunshine; they got hard labour and life in institutions. Margaret Humphreys has spent the past 25 years battling to reunite these divided families.
Studio: Icon Entertainment International
Release: April 1, 2011
Director: Jim Loach
Writer: Rona Munro
Cast: Emily Watson, Hugo Weaving, David Wenham
Genre: Drama
Margaret Humphreys on Oranges and Sunshine film
22 March 2011 Last updated at 15:39 GMT

The social worker who uncovered the child migrants scandal in the 1980s has been speaking about the film of her life, Oranges and Sunshine.
Margaret Humphreys, 66, brought to public attention the UK's role in sending children to former colonies, including Australia andCanada.
She attended the gala screening at the Broadway Cinema, in Nottingham, and while "transfixed" by the film she admitted it was also hard to revisit that period of her life.
"We were working against all the odds," said Mrs Humphreys.
"There was a lot of denial around, people didn't believe this had happened to the children.
"It was hard going back to those times. It was difficult, I've had to move on. You have to bury that and move on."
Mrs Humphreys' story began in 1986, when a woman told her that she had been taken from a children's home in Nottingham and sent toAustralia by boat, aged four, during the 1950s.
The woman added that there were hundreds like her.
Mrs Humphreys, who was working as a social worker for Nottinghamshire County Council, embarked on a mission to reunite them with their families.
The title of the film comes from the promise to the children of oranges and sunshine - but the reality was hard labour and life in institutions.
In February 2010, Prime Minister Gordon Brown apologised to the thousands of British children sent overseas in the 1950s.
The apology came during filming in Australia.
Incredible woman
The film's director Jim Loach, son of Ken Loach, said Mrs Humphreys was an "incredible" woman.
He came to Nottingham to speak to her after reading her book, Empty Cradles.
"We sat down and drank a lot of tea," said Mr Loach.
"I found her story completely compelling. I was gobsmacked by it, I couldn't believe it had happened.
"The more we spoke it became clear to me that it was film I wanted to make."
However, Ms Humphreys revealed she took a long time to be convinced that it was a good idea.
"[It was] rather daunting," said Mrs Humphreys.
"Jim [Loach] was very persistent and very strong in his wish to make the film.
"I think he'd say that eventually he persuaded me that it would be a very good and positive thing to do."
The conversations that took place between Mrs Humphreys and Mr Loach happened a few years before the Australian and UK Governments made public apologies for the scandal.
Mrs Humphreys said, in some respects, agreeing to the film was "another method to raise the awareness".
Oranges and Sunshine opens at UK cinemas on 1 April.

Margaret Humphreys at the gala screening of Oranges and Sunshine
Margaret Humphreys CBE OAM (born 1944) is a social worker, author and whistleblower from Nottingham, England. In 1987, she investigated and brought to public attention the British government programme of Home Children. This involved forcibly relocating poor British children to Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the former Rhodesia and other parts of the Commonwealth of Nations[1] often without their parents' knowledge. Children were often told their parents had died, and parents were told their children had been placed for adoption elsewhere in the UK. According to Humphreys, up to 150,000 children are believed to have been resettled under the scheme,[2] some as young as three,[1] about 7,000 of whom were sent to Australia.[3]
Saving money was one of the motives behind this policy. The children were allegedly deported because it was cheaper to care for them overseas. It cost an estimated £5 per day to keep a child on welfare in a British institution, but only ten shillings in an Australian one.[3]
Humphreys' research began in 1986. As a social worker involved in post-adoption support, she received a letter from a woman in Australia who said that, at the age of four, she had been shipped from the UK to a children's home in Australia, and was now looking for help in tracing her parents in Britain.[4]
Reference links:
http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/fps/2011/04/201141991512261920.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-12818070
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Humphreys#Films