The life of Orphans in today’s world is that of sheer uncertainty. With the survival rate of any such youngsters making it into adulthood [undamaged] put at a fairly nominal level, they are definitely the forgotten ones.
These days there’s hardly one week that goes by without the appalling news of child abuse! From the schools, to homes, and hospitals, including worship centres: young people in care have been subjected to the most unprintable, heinous acts of injustice where it is least expected. Thankfully the hope-inspiring movie Marcelino attempts to remind everyone again about how things used to be ....once upon a time.
The Miracle of Marcelino chronicles the story of a young orphan boy born in the wake of the Mexican revolution in the 19th century. Apparently, his mother had abandoned him swaddled at the door of a peculiar and deserted monastery. The sanctimonious friars had no clue about the disciplines of fatherhood but exhibited enough empathy and a sense of obligation to nurture the abandoned infant who grows into a rambunctious yet loving prankster.
Just like anyone who’s come through the care system would readily agree that at some point, they’d have had sleepless nights about their identities. It is commonplace to ponder over one’s real birth parents. Questions like what were they like, why did they have to abandon them in preference to other siblings etc: would always filter through. All these interminably playing on in their minds! Instinctively there’d still be that inner longing to want to reconnect with them.
Little Marcelino’s inquisitive personality eventually led him to a statute stashed in the attic of the monastery. His childhood innocence and fascination with this figurine with a face so full of love and light, turns into an unexpected miracle.
The Miracle of Marcelino reflects on the innocence of little kids and their attractiveness to miracles.
At such a time as this when even the church is so immersed in programs and steadily becoming insensitive to its first love; the unassuming and the least important ones amongst us could well be our source of inspiration back unto the right focus.
Check with your local theatres for further viewing dates if you missed it.
These days there’s hardly one week that goes by without the appalling news of child abuse! From the schools, to homes, and hospitals, including worship centres: young people in care have been subjected to the most unprintable, heinous acts of injustice where it is least expected. Thankfully the hope-inspiring movie Marcelino attempts to remind everyone again about how things used to be ....once upon a time.
Just like anyone who’s come through the care system would readily agree that at some point, they’d have had sleepless nights about their identities. It is commonplace to ponder over one’s real birth parents. Questions like what were they like, why did they have to abandon them in preference to other siblings etc: would always filter through. All these interminably playing on in their minds! Instinctively there’d still be that inner longing to want to reconnect with them.
Little Marcelino’s inquisitive personality eventually led him to a statute stashed in the attic of the monastery. His childhood innocence and fascination with this figurine with a face so full of love and light, turns into an unexpected miracle.
The Miracle of Marcelino reflects on the innocence of little kids and their attractiveness to miracles.
At such a time as this when even the church is so immersed in programs and steadily becoming insensitive to its first love; the unassuming and the least important ones amongst us could well be our source of inspiration back unto the right focus.
Check with your local theatres for further viewing dates if you missed it.
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