Procession reviewed by Mark Kermode

Mark Kermode reviews Procession. Six men, grown survivors of childhood sexual abuse by Catholic priests and clergy, come together to create a drama-therapy inspired experiment, hoping to help them process their collective trauma.

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[ZuShin]

But, what about the child actors playing the parts within the drama representation of the historical traumatic events? How does it effect those kids? Do they possibly get traumatised as well, because they are reinacting the same traumatic stories which the original participants were traumatised over? How does the drama therapy work for the child actors who are participating in these traumatic reinactments?

Are the original participants (or adult survivors of childhood traumas), fully aware of any possible side effects other kids could have from reinacting others childhood trauma stories?

We all know that some kids can grow up to be really traumatised adults from acting within the Film Industry. And there has never really been any studies as to why this is so. Kids aren't really at the age of consent to be working in the Film Industry, so they don't really understand the consequences of performing in certain roles. That's really the responsibility of the parents and also the filmakers.

I question whether this drama therapy has been handled appropriately by the filmakers. I feel, that they should have thought of other ways for the adult survivors to convey thier childhood trauma stories without using other Kids to reinact the drama.

The adult survivors aren't acting out thier childhood trauma stories within a drama. Some other kids are doing that for them. And I thought thats how drama therapy works, to be able to help adult survivors of childhood trauma, is for those adult survivors to act out thier own stories within a drama. Not someone else doing that. If the adult survivors themselves aren't doing the reinacting of thier own trauma stories, then they are just telling thier stories, hence, they don't need other children to dramatise it for them.

I don't think this drama project would help anyone. And I wouldn't want to watch a bunch of innocent kids being put through reinacting a traumatised drama which could possibly traumatise them as well.

[maxbooth]

did he not see it? that wasn't really a review