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Gratitude

Dani Dipirro

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Cultivating gratitude doesn't cost any money and doesn't take much time, but the benefits can be...

Third Culture Kids: The Experience of Growing Up Among Worlds

David C. Pollock and Ruth E. Van Reken

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For more than a decade, Third Culture Kids has been the authority on "TCKs"--children of...

Awix (3310 KP) rated Apaches (1977) in Movies

Jan 21, 2021

Apaches (1977)

1977 | Drama, Horror

8.0

(2 Ratings)

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Nerve-manglingly bleak and grim public information film. Six young children play cowboys and indians, cops and robbers, etc, on a (seemingly quite badly managed) farm and are one-by-one crushed under trailers, drowned in slurry pits, poisoned by weedkiller, etc, etc. All the time the adults are preparing for a mysterious party...

Pretty much guaranteed to traumatise most young viewers, I would have thought, and quite a tough watch for anyone else: you *know* that something horrifically fatal is going to befall one of the young cast every few minutes. In this respect it's written and paced exactly like a horror movie, the kind of thing children would never be allowed to watch - but this is supposed to be educational, see, so they can do things you'd never be allowed to show in an actual commercial movie. Director Mackenzie would go on to make The Long Good Friday and The Fourth Protocol (amongst other things) and brings a mixture of gritty naturalism and an eerie, dream-like quality to the film. Nastily effective: enough to put anyone off a trip to the countryside.