Post Your Views on The Film Dustbin Baby Year 8
Posted by: robertkelly on: November 3, 2010
The film Dustbin Baby is being shown in Year 8 lessons. It is a story of a girl who was rejected by her mother. She is found in a dustbin. Then adopted by a lady. Sadly that lady could not cope. Then April is sent to lots of foster homes. There she is treated badly. finally adopted by a lady called Marion. In the end April confronts her past. She meets the man who found her. She makes up with Marion and feels loved.
Do you think that if it was a boy who was rejected it would be a similar story?
You can post your thoughts and views on the film dustbin baby to Mr. Kelly here.
54 Responses to "Post Your Views on The Film Dustbin Baby Year 8"
November 3, 2010 at 4:45 pm
hi we have only watched the video to the part where she see the newspaper of her as a baby . But only that bit has still taught me a lot about how sad her emotions are and the way she wants to keep it all a secret. I think the part where she is with her friends on the train shows that she wants to be like all other people.
Also at the end of this part where she finds her old child minder she tells her name to the women. But the women can t remember her. but when she says that she the dustbin baby , she can remember her well . I felt so sorry for April to be preferred that name must feel so devastating .
overall i feel that it is a very powerful start that give you a lot of information about her background. can t wait to watch more 
November 3, 2010 at 8:05 pm
This is an extremely moving film. It shows how some people have to live from no fault of their own. The story indicates how hard life can be and how little people can understand.
I can completely understand why she would do what she did and how hard it would be. I also feel sorry for Marion who is trying to try her best whilst sticking to her morales.
How can she know where she’s going if she doesn’t know where she came from?
November 4, 2010 at 9:32 pm
I think that although it isn’t a real story it shows what the real world is like and is quite moving although i have already seent the film I think the section right at the start when she fights with marion makes her come across as anargumentitive girl but when we find out a bit more about her you can see why.
I think Dustbin Baby is a topic which should be coverd or somthing as this kind but i think although a real story is obviously more realistic a fiction story can tell just as much about her and the situations in real life and true feelings which everbody experiance.
I like Dustbin Baby because it has a simple but effective storyline and the flashbacks make it seem real, it’s like many people that haven’t got problems like that in their life don’t appreciate it in that way and although I have seen it many times before I always felt sorry for Marion and April and the pizza boy who had to hand her over but now we are talking in more depths in school I have realised that it does have more to it than that and it can effect everything in your life.
November 5, 2010 at 8:55 pm
Although we have only watched part of the movie, I have found it very moving how one child has had so many foster parents, through no fault of her own. Some parts of the film are moving, like where her adopted mother dies in the bathroom, and April asks for her ‘mummy’, and the adults don’t know how to tell her that her mum has died.
I also think that Marion is doing a good job at looking after April, and is doing her best to try and protect her from the cruelty of the world, even though April has experienced some already. It is also very emotional how April wants to be just like her friends, when she should be trying to find her own identity. This film really makes you feel lucky to have at least 1 family member in your life.
November 6, 2010 at 11:17 am
You’ve watched more than us but I also think marrion is doing a good job and you understand why april feels angry with her as the story unravels more. Hoever although april should try and find her own identity I think she’s already found it and just doesn’t like it so I think that she should just tell little bits to her friends about her past because after all if they’re are good friends they won’t mind. I think embarrashment is kicking in a bit along with the fact that she seems scared incase they won’t like her for it which I think thats what stopping her from telling people about her life truthfully.
November 7, 2010 at 9:38 pm
The film dustin baby has a lot of emotions in it. It gives u an idea of what it feels like to be abandoned and left, and then feel left out because of something you may not have. It shows that sometimes we take things for granted. My teacher is Miss Stokes
November 8, 2010 at 5:56 pm
Same my teacher is miss stokes.
i agree it certainly has alot of emotions in. I think this is a very unlikely story to happen in real life and you would(in most cases) only get abandoned if you parent(s) couldn’t phisically or emotionally look after you, but it does show what it feels like to not have parents. It also touches on bullyin although April’s friends don’t know they’re doing it but they(from April’s point of view) are teasing because of what April has or has not got.
I will admit I take alot of things for granted and I think I always will, but don’t we all (that don’t have problems in our lives)? But watching this film I’m starting to think more and more about what I take for granted and the people that have less than me. I don’t know about anyone else?
November 10, 2010 at 1:26 pm
I think the dustbin baby is an awsome film! Because it really makes you think about April’s emotions and it is very moving. We have watched the film upto the part were Pearl gets pushed down the stairs, as you watch more of the film it helps you to understand the big wild world even more!
November 10, 2010 at 1:30 pm
I think the film shows a variety of emotions and its rather moving. As you watch more of the movie you get a better understanding of what is happening. Marion is very different copared to April. Marion is very posh and does not really understand teenages and all April wants to do is fit in but Marion does not understand that. I like that Marion tried to call April her daughter but then changed it. Also I think that April should of just talked to Marion and told her why she wantrs/needs a phone so she knows why !
November 10, 2010 at 1:33 pm
The film is good and realy shows what life in care is like. I like watching it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
November 10, 2010 at 1:35 pm
The dustbin baby is a very powerful film. The way that April has to live through orphanage. I personally find it very moving when she meets the person that finds April in the bin, and she finally finds what she was like when she was a baby. Also i find it sad when that girl, Pearl in the movie is nasty to April and then April gets told off for something she didn’t do. I don’t like the fact that she is moved from house to house either. in the end she gets moved from house to house so much, when Marion takes her in, she doesn’t expect it to last.
November 10, 2010 at 9:26 pm
Kieran I totally agree. I find thiose last two parts moving as well.
November 10, 2010 at 1:51 pm
Mr Kelly
I have seen the film quite a few times before. The first time I watched it it really hit heart and I released how much we have and how lucky we are to some who are not so.
I think the most powerful part of the film for me is the part when her foster parents split and the mother commits suicide with the lines “You don’t need me either, DO YOU!” that really hit heart
I hope people relise how lucky they are.
November 10, 2010 at 4:21 pm
I thought at the start of the film that April was just ungrateful, but as it went on I started to understand her feelings
November 10, 2010 at 5:16 pm
I think the film shows what happens to children in real life.
April is quite ungreatful of marion taking her in. Its quite Sad that April does not know any of her real family but gets to find the man that found her. I am glad the P.S.H.E department got us to watch the dustbin baby.
November 10, 2010 at 7:25 pm
have you finished it then because we’ve only watched upto April in the graveyard but i agree with everything that you said!
November 10, 2010 at 5:27 pm
Mr Kelly
We have both seen the film before but it was still an emotional experience. It showed how people can be different in so many ways, but you wouldn’t know without understanding their background. When we first watched the film we thought April was ungrateful, but when we got further into the film, we understood why.
November 10, 2010 at 7:18 pm
I think that the dustbin baby is a very good film. My favourite part was at the end, but I will not reveal anymore… I do not like jacqueline wilson’s books very much but i want to read this one. I rate this film ****** (6) stars out of 10.
November 10, 2010 at 7:23 pm
Now we’ve watched some more of the film it is clear that Marion doesn’t understand teenagers and isn’t good at knowing what the want or need to fit in and feel like a normal teenager. Marion seems to get more and more desperate the longer she thinks April has run away for good and April seems to be more and more devastated by the things that are cropping up. I think that if she told Marion where she was going and what she wanted to do she would get there quicker and not cause all the grief she has already caused Marion.
Pearl is a mean and spiteful girl there is no kinder way to describe her but that might be because of something that has happend in the past for her. However I think that when Apil stood up to her by pushing her down the stairs that in many ways was good because she did stand up to her but I think she should have done in a way she wouldn’t get the blame like telling Mo.
I still think that Mo should have investigated more because how likely is it that you would just push your best mate down the stairs for no reason, and when Mo was a noyed at April for getting her hair wet in the bath she should have asked more instead of getting annoyed straight away because again why would you do that for fun so I think Mo should have worked out more than she did quicker than she did.
When April was made to rob next door I don’t think it was fair because the older ones would have known there was a high risk of them getting caught so it doesn’t seem to me that they did it just because she was the smallest. I don’t like the fact Mo made April be friends with Pearl because April liked Gina and they had a good friendship almost a sister like thing going on.
I also think that although April was dissapointed by getting earings instead of a mobile she had built it up with her friends saying that she is 100% getting a mobile that then lieng to them on the train saying it was charging then when she see’s them next without a phone she has probably just made it harder for her to maintain that relationship and she should have just told them she didn’t receive 1 in the first plac.
November 11, 2010 at 2:26 pm
Hi,
I think the dustbin baby is a good film but very moving.
The bit where them creepy men go up to April freaks me out!
Also I don’t like Pearl she is so mean i can’t beleive she tried to drown April. Good on April i would of pushed her down the stairs, especially if she was wripping my belongings up. EVIL PEARL! Anyway at the start i thought April was a spoilt child but then now i feel really sorry for he. Thats my thoughts on it! BYE!!!!
November 11, 2010 at 3:05 pm
At the start I thought April was really ungrateful but then as the film went on I started to understand why she was being like that!!
November 11, 2010 at 5:59 pm
Hi I think that the dustbin baby is a moving film and the emotions change so much through out the film. I dont like the part where april goes to the grave and those freaky men come up to her and terrorise her that really freaked me out!!!!!!! I like the film because it goes through the different stages and care homes and foster homes april has been in and that really makes you think that people have been through this. At the beginning i thought that she was spoilt and ungrateful but now i feel sorry for her!! 
November 11, 2010 at 7:31 pm
Hi, I think that this storyline is moving and the emotions change through out the story which makes it interesting. The part where april goes to the graveyard freaks me out!!!!!! At the beginning april sounds ungrateful for what she gets but as the story goes on i understand her actions
November 11, 2010 at 7:31 pm
At the start of the film i thought that April was VERY ungrateful but then once i had watched some more i began to understand her emotions. I thought that this story is very moving and emotional and i want to watch more! 
November 11, 2010 at 7:33 pm
I thought that this story is very moving and emotional and i want to watch more of it! At the beginning i thought that April was being ungrateful but then i understood her emotions as the story went on!
November 11, 2010 at 7:39 pm
at the start of the movie i thought april was really really ungrateful, but then later on in the movie i started to realise why she acted that way, and i understood her more. i hope to see more soon
November 11, 2010 at 8:33 pm
I think the Dustbin Baby is a very very moving story i have not saw it all yet but i am desperate to see what happens!!!!!!!!! It goes to show how lucky we are!!
November 12, 2010 at 6:58 pm
I thought the Dustbin Baby (April) must have felt confused and lost with no hope of fitting in. I cant what to see more. Hope see find a place to fit in.
November 13, 2010 at 1:14 pm
I thought this film was moving /heartbreaking
the way Marion almost said that April was her child showed how much she loved her. later in the film I felt so sorry for April when she met that girl that was bullying her. It was a really wicked twist to put April almost get drowned by that girl. I also think that when she went to all of the homes she live in really showed how she loves no one else but her real mum.
November 13, 2010 at 10:27 pm
I have watched film before at home and I really liked it but I found when we started watching it in PSHE it had a much bigger impact on me than it did before.
I think it had a bigger impact on me and made me feel more emotional because we were talking about April and Marions’ emotions and feelings at different points in the film.
At the beginning April seems really ungrateful and spoilt, but as the film goes on you start to understand why she acts the way she does, if you put yourself in her shoes. I think this film is really moving and emotional.
I have been really enjoying this topic in PSHE so far, and am looking forward to the next lesson when we watch the last part of the film.
November 14, 2010 at 12:57 pm
I think the dustbin baby is a moving film. it shows aprils emotions through out the film. i want to see more and see how the story ends. also here flashbacks give the story more meaning.
November 16, 2010 at 4:35 pm
i think this book shows real emotion and shows how children in care feel
November 16, 2010 at 7:13 pm
I’ve watched up to the part where pearl get pushed down the stairs and so far I think it is a really good film with a great story . It gives us an idea about what it would be liked to be abandoned and moved from house to house
November 16, 2010 at 9:40 pm
i think it is a very disterbing video because she has a bad reputaition as a dusbin baby and she had to move from house to house to find the right one but she couldn’t fit in with any of them and i think its wrong
November 17, 2010 at 8:44 am
She did fit in with her adoption parents because I think it was because she grew up from a baby with them but after that I don’t think it was fair on her. She din’t however have a bad reputation as the Dustbin Baby she just wasn’t remembered for her but as the Dustbin Baby. I’m glad I’m not her and I’m also glad this situation has never (to my knowledge) happend in real life!
November 17, 2010 at 8:41 am
this story has a good story line. it chose deep emotion and show the way that tennagers act eg, April. i cant wait to watch more and see what april does
November 17, 2010 at 9:13 am
although we havent finished the dustbin baby yet , i think that the start is interesting . i think april lives a sad lonely life and if i was her i would have hit pearl straight away 
November 17, 2010 at 9:17 am
i thought at the beginning that april was really ungrateful, but then later on i started to realise that she was just upset. she knows she was called ‘dustbin baby’ but it must be dreadful being known as something as terrible as that. i hope to see more in the nearby future. see ya folks.
November 17, 2010 at 9:19 am
i think this film is very good because it shows diffrerent ways of how people live being fostered , i would reccomend this film/book to children from age 7-13 . I LIKE THIS FILM
November 17, 2010 at 1:28 pm
We finished the Dustbin Baby today and at the end I was really pleased for April as she discoverd Frankie the boy that found her I thought this was good because it finally gives her a conection between someone from birth. Even though April was grateful for the earings she also seems to accept Marrion because instead of backing away when Marion went to kiss her she let her and appeared as though she was normal and not the girl found in the dustbin and they all were very happy at the end as a three. Marion at the begginning is not a good parent because with her being old and never having had children herself she doen’t understand the emotions of teenagers properly and with April from a foster home and then boarding school April is much more venerable she can upset her much easier. Marion doesn’t understand any of Aprils needs to fit in and by refusing to give her a mobile phone without knowing it she has singled her out but I think she finally realises at the end that April won’t change if she does have one and it will only drive her away again if she can’t fit in by having a mobile.
November 23, 2010 at 7:23 pm
Hi Mr.kelly..
I think the dusbin baby is a very moving film, It touched me when she couldn’t find her mum and when she was found in a bin. I think she had a horrible life.
November 24, 2010 at 8:20 pm
this is a very moving story and it shows how people are unlucky in life
November 25, 2010 at 7:44 pm
Hey I thought it was really sad the way she was put in a care home and then got bullied their but it was good that she felt safe with Gina even if she and the others did go and rob some of the houses!1
November 25, 2010 at 7:46 pm
Hey I think it was really sad but a good film, I liked April the best even though she isolated herself from everyone
January 9, 2011 at 4:04 pm
i think it makes it worse for april when she keeps having to move house to house with so many foster parents because i think it will make her feel unwanted and unloved.
i think this story is really emotional and it makes me realize how lucky i am to have a family around me.
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November 3, 2010 at 1:29 pm
The Dustbin baby film is a rather moving film and the emotions change a lot through out the movie.
November 10, 2010 at 1:40 pm
Hi People, I think Michaella is right at the start of the film I thought April was just ungrateful and as the film went on I started to understand her emotions a little more.
November 10, 2010 at 1:50 pm
Hello people of the web,
At the start of the film I just thought April was un-grateful, but as the film went on I started to understand her emotions a little more.
November 12, 2010 at 8:43 am
Same. I think that April explains herself more through her emotions as the film progresses although I have seen the film before I still feel sorry for April. The fact that April seemed un-grateful at the begginning it becomes more and more obvious why she’s like that and you begin to like her and although she seems moody at the begginning you start to like her the longer the film goes on and you feel sorry for her. I can’t imagine not knowing any of my real family!
November 10, 2010 at 3:57 pm
At the beginning she looks at paper dolls which doesn’t seem relevant until later in the story, which shows their importance to her.
November 10, 2010 at 5:18 pm
same I didn’t think she was very nice at first but then I started to understand why she did that and her real feelings and emotions
November 12, 2010 at 8:41 am
Same. I think you can not see what april has been feeling and what she does feel at the beginning. As the film progresses you get to see what she is feeling and why she is like what she is.
November 17, 2010 at 8:37 pm
I agree with Michaella strongly.