More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Laura decides to reopen the orphanage to cater for disabled children and throws a party. Laura feels the presence of other people in the house and months later Laura invites a team of parapsychologists to try to unravel the mystery. Un cuento de amor. Una historia de terror. A horror story. Drama Horror Mystery Thriller. Rated R for some disturbing content. Did you know Edit.
Trivia When writer Sergio G. I picked them out myself! What he didn't know: She was diagnosed at a very young age with a degenerative eye disease that was going to leave her blind. One of the last things her parents did while she could still see was let her see a big selection of glass eyes and choose the ones she wanted.
Goofs In the film, we see the lighthouse shining directly on the orphanage. In reality, coastal lighthouses are shielded so their light does not shine on land. Quotes Aurora : Seeing is not believing. Crazy credits Pieces of wallpaper are peeled off to reveal each of the opening credits. She has memories here, most of them happy, she believes, but as images begin to swim into her mind and even her vision, she has horrifying notions about what might have happened to the playmates she left behind on the summer day 30 years ago.
Simon, too, seems disturbed, and since no other children have arrived, he creates imaginary playmates. One of them, a boy with a sack over his head, he shows in a drawing to his mother, who is startled because this very image exists in her own mind.
Does that mean -- well, what could it mean? Or the possibility that Simon, too, is the product of her imagination? The line between reality and fantasy is so blurred in the film that it may even be, however unlikely, that Simon exists and is imagining her.
It matters not for us, because we are inside Laura's mind, no matter what. And when a decidedly sinister "social worker" Montserrat Carulla turns up, Simon learns after her visit that he is adopted and dying. He apparently runs away, even though he needs daily medication.
His parents spend months searching for him, putting posters everywhere, convinced he is not dead. But many children may have died at the orphanage. The parents consult a psychic Geraldine Chaplin , who possibly provides what people claim they want from a psychic but really don't : the truth.
It lingers to create atmosphere, a sense of place, a sympathy with the characters, instead of rushing into cheap thrills. By the end of the 19th century, orphanages were considered one of the best methods for caring for dependent children, with many poor single parents regarding them as places to leave their children until circumstances improved.
Both institutions exist today, albeit with different names. After institutional care for children fell into disfavor, the shift was for children to receive more direct support and services for families with adoption becoming the goal.
Orphanages began closing in the s, with many charities creating instead foster care agencies. By the s, states had taken over responsibility for care of dependent children and the anti-institutionalization movement of the s closed most remaining orphanages. In , Congressman Newt Gingrich suggested a return to orphanages, citing that the system was faced with a shortage of foster parents and an ever-increasing number of children were entering the foster care system.
In , along with several other social activists in New York City, Eliza was one of the founders of the first private orphanage in the city, the New York Orphan Asylum Society. She was there in when the orphanage laid its first cornerstone, and she was indefatigable in her efforts to raise money and support the society, becoming its director in She remained involved until her 90s. Post by Tilar J. Mazzeo, author of a forthcoming biography on Eliza Hamilton.
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