A poignant documentary about those who have been cast out of their culture and coping with a larger society for which they are unprepared. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Could you leave behind a life you weren’t happy in, even if it meant never seeing your family again? Even if it meant you thought you were going to burn in hell for it? This is the dilemma that Amish who abandon the plain life and move to the larger culture face, and it is depicted with delicacy and compassion by writer-director Callie T. Wiser in The Amish: Shunned, debuting on PBS’s American Experience tonight. A followup to 2012’s The Amish, which Wiser produced as part of the same series, this is an extraordinarily poignant peek inside an insular world, yet one that never feels voyeuristic or lurid.
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Could you leave behind a life you weren’t happy in, even if it meant never seeing your family again? Even if it meant you thought you were going to burn in hell for it? This is the dilemma that Amish who abandon the plain life and move to the larger culture face, and it is depicted with delicacy and compassion by writer-director Callie T. Wiser in The Amish: Shunned, debuting on PBS’s American Experience tonight. A followup to 2012’s The Amish, which Wiser produced as part of the same series, this is an extraordinarily poignant peek inside an insular world, yet one that never feels voyeuristic or lurid.
- 2/4/2014
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
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