Edit: Watched it a 2nd time and am overwhelmed with emotion. That is what movies should be about. I had not heard about this movie as I'm not quite sure if its original release was very wide and I ran across it via a movie app. The acting is superb, especially from actors who were not actually experienced actors, which likely helped this flick a lot. I actually know someone who was sent to a center such as this one back in the 1980's and had been told, over time as he would mention things casually without being too revealing, about some of the things that happened in SOME of these so-called reform camps and centers. Anyway, this movie is a drama and it's shocking. Watch it. Be shocked. I don't know if these places exist anymore, and some were likely fine and did some good, but we know what happens in prisons, the fact that our youth, especially ones needing help, may have been subjected to some of this is heartbreaking.
Review of Coldwater
