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How do editing and mise-en-scene shape our understanding of and response to the opening sequence of Mullen's The Magdalen Sisters?
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How do editing and mise-en-scene shape our understanding of and response to the opening sequence of Mullen's The Magdalen Sisters? Peter Mullen's brilliant, if biased direction shapes our anger for the four young Irish girls who land in the cruel laundries of the Magdalen Sisters. In the 1960's, Catholic girls who were deemed promiscuous, pregnant or potentially provocative were sent into servitude in the Magdalen Laundries, a slave-labour business run by the Catholic Church in certain Irish communities. In the opening sequence, where Margaret's fate is determined, the setting (in the mise-en-scene) of a wedding uses hardly any dialogue, to build up tension with sound. The diagetic sound of a priest's voice precedes the opening shot of a close up of a drum that shadows the priest's hands. The punitive image on the drum illustrates the harsh side of religion. The hand maintains a beat that dominates the wedding, making the...
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