Ciúnas (Silence) | Award-winning Irish language film about a family facing a crisis

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A couple collect their teenaged daughter from hospital, but on the journey home no one seems to want to discuss her reasons for being there.

 

@rsrfm24

In life ,as short as it is, human beings need to learn that we are never alone. Moment to moment, we should always know and feel that there is always a way, a way to look on the better side of life.To think that you have reach a wall in life ,no escape, to think of trying to end it ,one should know that endings like beginnings come in many forms.

There is always a different door there…look and you Will see it. “Sticks and stones will break your bones,but names will Never hurt you!” A saying heard but meaning often missed! Just like when you are born ,as a new life begins, growing and learning all about existence on our beautiful planet we call Earth…and as we grow older and wiser, we never ever stop learning till we die and

move on , to a journey yet to be found.You experience new things and find ways that help you on your way in life as you grow up and if you look at it you’ll see there is always someone there.The simple things are easy, but the harder things need help. Remember ….
there is always help and someone there…your never ever really alone.️

 

@onlijnatfreeler

Beautifull film, the subtle acting and the title revealing what we humans can all see and feel. What this short peace of art contrairilly reveals too, however, is how our culture of making it a virtue to hide our authentic feelings from one another, breeds isolation between people that need to be close, and the self alienating feeling of shame about just that what attaches us to

human kind. We can not live outside of our bodies. If we have to suppress our authentic feelings in order to belong to the others who are supposed to be our recourse for protection, then the connection with what we truly are dies. If we love our child, and feel deeply saddened and upset by her inner conflict that made her attempt to take her life, we shouldn't have to hide our feelings,

even from the ones nearest by. We shouldn't be ashamed to tear up, having to lock ourselves up in a restroom and press down our pain, grieve, hurt, and fear. If we would live in an environment where our humanity was accepted and honored, there would be room for us to express our frustration and dispair related to a painfull event, and we wouldn't have to disconnect them from the

event that caused them and then lash them out over a futility like the use of a phone to text some friends. Neither would our deep rooted feeling of love, care, and belonging have to squeeze itself into a speechless gesture of manicure... And if everyone in their own way, would actively oppose the culture that is bereaving us from all expression of our humanity towards each other, by

imposing the negation of what we truely feel in obligatory silence, then no daughter or son would need to come to a point, of seeing no other way then to end their lives, when feeling unpleasant, confusing, and painfull emotions. This delicate artwork shows us what we culturally deprive ourselves and others from, by insisting on swallowing our tongues.