Movie: Lamb
Lamb is
a 1985 Irish film that tells the story of a young priest, Brother Sebastian,
who works in a Roman Catholic institution for troubled boys on the west coast
of Ireland, referred to as "a finishing school for the sons of the Idle
Poor" by its head, Brother Benedict. There, the Brothers teach boys to
conform in a harsh, uncompromising regime which Brother Sebastian, whose real
name is Michael Lamb, finds deeply distasteful. The Brothers teach the boys “a
little of God and a lot of fear.”
In this clip 10-year-old Owen Kane is belted by
Brother Benedict for something he didn’t do even though Benedict knows he is
innocent.
Picture and video credits: Film Four, available
on DVD.
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