I saw the other day an entertaining movie. It was created in two months by the Universal studio. The director of this film is the famous man Colin Trevorow.
I do not want to talk about actors now (in my opinion, the cast has coped with its task perfectly). I want to give a little attention to the plot, more precisely one storyline. One of the main characters - a twelve-year-old Henry notices that the neighbor girl Christina behaves somehow strangely. She does not communicate with anyone, except the school does not go anywhere. This girl lives with her stepfather, she does not have a mother. As a result of small observations, Henry concludes that the stepfather pestered Christina.
I did not say that Henry is a boy prodigy. Except that he is very clever - he is also brave. He goes directly to the headmaster of the school and asks that she call the guardianship authorities to protect Christine. The director refuses Henry, because she is unsure of the truthfulness of the boy's words. In this town, Mr. Siklman (Christina's stepfather) is considered a good person. Then the boy himself calls to the number that he found in the reference book. He asks employees to take action, and calls Christina's address. A person from the guardianship authority does come to Siklman. The owner does not invite him to go even into the house. They talk on the porch of the house and the guardian leaves.
Why am I all this? I read posts with the tag family protection. Everybody curses the guardianship authorities, because the children are unjustly taken away. Yes, these are monstrous errors, which should not be!
Before you take a child from the family - you need to think 1000 times, weigh all the pros and cons. The child is nowhere better than in his own family. But in some families there is violence and children need to be saved. Guardianship bodies should be, they need society, but not in the form in which they exist now. Responsible people must work there. People who are responsible for their actions!
Let's go back to the movie, what is it !? The employee from the guardianship did not even try to find out the real situation! Why did the principal remain indifferent to the boy's request !? The film makes it clear that she also knows about Christina's misfortune, but does not take any action. We all are afraid for our family. I already wrote about the fact that the reason for you to visit the guardianship agencies may be one call. It can come from neighbors, from school, from the hospital. It's terrible to think what could happen next. And I'm scared for Christina. She has nowhere to wait for help. In the middle of the movie, Henry will die. He will leave a message to his mother about what is happening in the Siklmanov house. She too will not manage to solve this problem by legal means.
If you're curious to know how Christina's story ends, watch this movie.
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