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  Review by Peaceful Stoner ★★★★★ 26

  There is a simple sign language to greet the current law system.

  Raise both your hands to the level of your shoulders with both the palms facing upwards. Now make a clenched fist in both the hands. Grind your teeth and let the anger broil inside you, to the extent of evanescing your benign law abiding self. Now this is the most important part. From the tightly clenched fist raise both the middle fingers and show it to the lady who is blind folded, to the balance scale she holds and to the substance which feeds her and makes her scale tip to such deplorable depths, money.

  This film had me enraged, touched my heart, made me shed tears at…

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  Review by Invincible Asia ★★★★½

  "Silenced" is one depressing and important piece of South Korean drama cinema. Based on real events it tells the story of a young man who gets a job as an art teacher at a school for deaf children. He's shocked by the abusive behaviour of his colleagues towards the children but the truth he uncovers is even more terrifying. And such is the helplessness he faces when public authorities don't want to take him seriously and the legal system does anything but it's job.

  As I mentioned in my review of "The Hunt" starring Mads Mikelsen I consider child abuse the most horrifying atrocity a human can commit. That there are adults that force themselves upon children and even find…

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  Review by rachel ★★★★½ 10

  i feel sick. that was absolutely brutal to watch, and the fact this is based on a true story just makes me want to die. i will never watch this again but what a powerful and well-made film, and i’m glad i’ve watched it because it is so important. the acting was absolutely exceptional, especially from the children.

  if you are watching this because it’s from the creator/director of squid game, please don’t expect anything remotely similar, and if you are easily triggered by child/sexual abuse please don’t watch this film.

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  Review by Naughty aka Juli Norwood ★★★★★ 8

  The shocking but true story depicting the horrifying abuse and molestation of deaf children by the very people whose job it was to protect and care for them.. What happens to them afterwards is even more horrifying! It moved me to tears, I know it will move you!

  The film took great pleasure in playing Whack-A-Mole with my heart! At one point I was absolutely livid! Surely there must have been smoke coming from my ears! I know I was so distressed and agitated that I longed for someone to be there for me and talk me down from this precipice I found myself standing on!

  It is a devastating watch! Trust me I'm a tough old broad and I've…

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  Review by Rafael "Parker!!" Jovine ★★★★½ 12

  As heartbreaking and infuriating as the reviews pointed out. And the fact that it is based on real life makes everything here make your blood boil for the cruelty, ignorance and injustice that so many must live and endure, and you literally have a group that has no voice to speak out, and without going into too many spoilers, even get the chance to "speak out", the corruption across the board cuts off any hope. The film, for better or worse, goes even further by showing graphic scenes of both physical and sexual child abuse that is unlikely to leave anyone with the slightest ounce of humanity to flinch. The music is great, somewhat manipulative, but really good accompanied by…

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  Review by Farhan Al Azhar ★★★★★ 8

  This is based on actual events that happened in Gwang Ju, South Korea. People assume that actual events were dramatized in the movie, but apparently the actual events were more heinous than the movie. I heard that it's actually the idea of Gong Yoo (the main actor of the movie) to shoot this after reading the novel while serving his mandatory military service. He wanted more people to know about this horrible truth. He wanted to raise the attention of the public.

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  Review by London ★★★★★

  Silenced is a film that will absolutely destroy you. Even on a second watch, it wasn't any easier. It broke me. It destroyed me. But it is also such an incredible film. For the usual reasons, a haunting soundtrack, incredible performances, particularly with Gong Yoo having the performance of his career, and being able to joke and laugh and have compelling kind characters in a world made of pain and agony. But Silenced is special for one particular reason.

  This gets into spoilers, so if you have any inclination to watch the film and care about knowing about this true story, go watch the film and stop reading.

  The people in this film get away. They got away with atrocities…

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  Review by kyrs ★★★★

  i am so utterly devastated. what a sick and cruel world we live in

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  Review by Ben ★★★★ 2

  Silenced is based on the sexual, mental, and physical abuse of deaf and hard of hearing children carried out by staff at the now-closed Gwangju Inhwa School in South Korea. The film is melodramatic at times, but that did not make it any less powerful. In fact, the film's release sparked enough outcry to get the school shut down, get more appropriate punishment levied against the abusers, and for South Korea to change its laws.

  The child actors are phenomenal, and the film does not hold back in depicting the abuse that the children experienced. My heart actively ached throughout the entire runtime, knowing that so many children suffered at that school at the hands of people who were supposed…

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  Review by Bri ★★★★★ 3

  One of the most depressing movies ever made

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  Review by sofi✨ ★★★★ 2

  it took me a while to digest this. yet, as shocking and devastating as it is, it also is really well made —and extremely important

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  Review by Chris ★★★½

  Based on true events of institutional abuse at a Korean school for deaf students, this is a film that will undoubtedly leave you enraged at the heinous acts committed by the perpetrators and the justice systems abject failure to protect those most vulnerable. It's little surprise that something dealing with such horrifying subject matter becomes genuinely difficult to watch at times; the situations reenacted are already disturbing, but what proves just as gut-wrenching is the direct manner in which it depicts the helplessness lead character Kang feels in fighting extensive corruption and the heart-rendering fashion in which it explores the psychological scarring that befalls these innocent children. It's therefore moving to see both of them growing closer as a way…