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Silenced

2011Movie2 h 5 min

Drama
92
ExcellentGoodWatch score
IMDb8.0Letterboxd4.2/5Rotten Tomatoes100%93%
92
ExcellentGoodWatch score
IMDb8.0Letterboxd4.2/5Rotten Tomatoes100%93%

Summary

Based on actual events that took place at Gwangju Inhwa School for the hearing-impaired, where young deaf students were the victims of repeated sexual assaults by faculty members over a period of five years in the early 2000s.

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  • Thought-provoking
  • Adults

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Disabled Means HelplessRare · in 47 titlesThis trope is played rather cruelly in the case of the schoolchildren, as, for the most part, they are deaf and, presumably, mute so, they can't really communicate too well what is wrong, along with…Orphan's Ordealin 230 titlesYeon-doo receives a lion's share of beatings and rapes, to the point that she is eventually hospitalised.All 49 tropes

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