Song for a Raggy Boy

Movie Review

Mild Spoiler Alert:

Aidan Quinn is William Franklin, a real-life schoolteacher, who goes to work at a boys reformatory.

There is severe abuse there, but Franklin makes a difference.

I won’t spoil it for you, but it is highly recommended.

Not for the squeamish, I didn’t want to watch the whole thing, but in the end, I was glad of the destination.

Song for a Raggy Boy is a harsh but crucial forerunner of the milder story, Dead Poet’s Society.

Sometimes heroes have unlikely backgrounds. I guess you can’t judge a book by its cover. I am not judging the hero’s politics, but he lived out Christianity, while his adversaries, clothed and named for Christ, failed utterly.