Romulus, My Father

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Christina tells her son Raimond regarding his father, Romulus, "He loved me so badly when I tried to leave him he shot himself... but he missed." (0:12)

Outside their home Romulus beats Raimond. (0:37)

Romulus, hearing Raimond scream, finds Christina unconscious, an empty pill bottle next to her bed, pills scattered on the floor. (0:59)

Raimond finds Christina's lover Mitru beating her. (1:05)

Mitru has died. How? (1:07)

Christina takes an overdose of pills again after Raimond tells a teacher at his boarding school he does not want her to visit him again. (1:14)

Romulus grieves. The funeral. (1:16)

Raimond cries in bed next to Romulus. (1:17)

Romulus, apparently psychotic, almost kills Raimond with an ax. Raimond visits "Lakeside Ballarat Mental Hospital." (1:25)

Raimond visits Romulus in the hospital. Romulus appears catatonic with a burn on his left temple suggestive of ECT. (1:28)

Back home Romulus appears mute, barely responsive. (1:32)

Romulus tells Raimond how Mitra killed himself by jumping from tower after carefully planting a knife in the ground below, pointing up "just to make bloody sure." (1:34)

Bereavement | overdose | Physical Abuse of Adult | Physical Abuse of Child | psychiatric hospital | suicide

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