Mockingbird Don't Sing seemed to portray a very close comparison to the life Katie has lived. This isn't a movie of great excitement and joy, but then again, most of her life wasn't a very pretty picture. Her father was the main enforcer in this tragedy she went through. It seemed as though he had no clue what he was doing. His actions were immoral, violent, and showed no love for his daughter. His last letter said "The world will never understand." It raises the question if he maybe had a good reason for excluding his daughter from society and all it has to offer. A man wrote "No ideas can be shown scientifically to be right or wrong"(Deflem 1). The fact is that if the girl was born retarded or not, Katie was deprived of her childhood and civilization which lead to her problems and abnormalities. The best part about this story is that people never gave up on her once she was found. As the film came to a close, there wasn't a smile on my face, but I think the objective of the movie is to acknowledge the idea that a life is very precious and often turns out the way it has been molded.
Review of Mockingbird Don't Sing
