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Then She Found Me (2008)
TIFF Review: Then She Found Me <-- Please read!
If you have seen this newly released film, or if you have read any articles relating to it, please share your thoughts. Do you feel that this film is useful when it comes to promoting a positive image of adoption as a practice? How did the portrayal of the birth mother make you feel? Do you think that the struggles of an adopted person were fairly addressed? Or perhaps it was "too Hollywood" for you?
Quote from the article: "Perhaps the biggest running theme of Then She Found Me is adoption, but the film skirts around any actual debate on the merits and demerits of the practice... There's not much more depth to the discussions...which is a shame – adoption is an issue that's not exactly over-discussed these days. The film is also on shaky ground when it continually repeats the same set-up over and over: April's wacko of a birth mother does something horrible and then begs for forgiveness and April forgives her. Would you really forgive someone who told you lies on the level of: your father is Steve McQueen?"
If you have seen this newly released film, or if you have read any articles relating to it, please share your thoughts. Do you feel that this film is useful when it comes to promoting a positive image of adoption as a practice? How did the portrayal of the birth mother make you feel? Do you think that the struggles of an adopted person were fairly addressed? Or perhaps it was "too Hollywood" for you?
Quote from the article: "Perhaps the biggest running theme of Then She Found Me is adoption, but the film skirts around any actual debate on the merits and demerits of the practice... There's not much more depth to the discussions...which is a shame – adoption is an issue that's not exactly over-discussed these days. The film is also on shaky ground when it continually repeats the same set-up over and over: April's wacko of a birth mother does something horrible and then begs for forgiveness and April forgives her. Would you really forgive someone who told you lies on the level of: your father is Steve McQueen?"
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