{"id":7480,"date":"2023-08-19T12:29:12","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T18:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interestingauthors.com\/blog\/?p=7480"},"modified":"2023-08-19T12:29:13","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T18:29:13","slug":"nothing-compares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interestingauthors.com\/blog\/film-reviews\/nothing-compares\/","title":{"rendered":"Review \u2013 Nothing Compares"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605<\/span>\n\n\n\n

I give Nothing Compares<\/a><\/em> five stars because it is a bang-up documentary on the troubled life of Sin\u00e9ad O’Connor. Cannot say I was an ardent fan of her music when she was alive, but I liked some of it. Her voice had no competition or comparison on the market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Catholics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Anyone who was raised Catholic or still is Catholic should watch this video. I left the church my senior year of high school and never went back. A big chunk of this documentary focuses around Sin\u00e9ad’s upbringing as a Catholic and her love for the church. Much of this is in her own words, gleanned from interviews given over the years. Some of it from very recent interviews. Now that Sin\u00e9ad has passed, most likely via suicide, it’s almost as if this movie was “her note.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is a sad chunk of the world that only knows Sin\u00e9ad as “that girl who ripped up a picture of the pope.” Many may now the Joe Pesci monologue about it on SNL. (I love you Joe, but you were on the wrong side of this one.) Today most of us have heard of the pedophile priests and\/or seen the movie Spotlight<\/a><\/em> but Sin\u00e9ad was roughly a decade ahead of the curve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Magdalene Asylum<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The footage from Magdalene is some of the most striking in the documentary. The Catholic church has institutionalized rape in Ireland. I need to watch the movie again (which you can for free on Tubi<\/a>), but it sounds like Magdalene was one of many “work houses for fallen women.” The outside world spoke of them as prostitutes, but many had really been raped by priests, bishops, and “pillars of the community.” For the right “donation” if you were well connected to the Catholic church in Ireland, you could rape a woman then have her and the offspring kept by the church out of sight from the world at a place like Magdalene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One thing the documentary makes pretty clear is that Mandinka<\/em> wasn’t a song about the people, it was a play on word sounds and about her time at Magdalene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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