Reform-school girls break the rules
The girls sent to this reform school aren’t really bad apples, they’re kiwis. They’re indigenous Māori in New Zealand sent by white society to reform school to eradicate their native language and culture and train them to become good Christian wives and mothers or, at minimum, shop workers.has a more lyrical and culturally damning spirit than the reform-school dramas we are mostly familiar with from American B movies.
The friendship among three girls who buck the Matron’s call to “Christinize, civilize, and assimilate” is the focus of the story. Nellie and Daisy were city vagrants picked up and sent to the school for reformation, where they befriend Louisa , who comes from a privileged family background but is rumored to have a mysterious sexual past. The details are unknown to the other girls.
Because it is believed that “stupid women love to procreate,” forced sterilizations commence in the island’s medical shed. This becomes the trio’s breaking point. Some friction among them is played out in unnecessary backtracking in which their various perspectives are seen from different vantage points. Yet the strategy only muddies the already confusing point of view. Once the climactic escape plan is hatched, the 83-minute film rushes toward its unlikely but hopeful conclusion.
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