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Video on Adoption: Moving or Trite?
Maybe you can help me clarify my feelings about this rather trippy short film, a candidate in the Reel13 Shorts competition. The topic is ostensibly the confusion some adopted kids face when they become old enough to grapple with the fact that they are not biologically related to their parents.
Except that the kid in this short is a light bulb, and his mother wears nothing but ballgowns and pearls. Also, the Disney Princess mother rescues her light bulb baby from the bottom of the sea at one point.
The video is worth watching for the lovely animation alone, but I’d be curious to hear how others respond to the rather simplistic narration about the struggles with adoption–does this fairytale ring true to adoptive parents or feel a bit trite?
Juxtaposed from Reel 13 on Vimeo.
Photo: gladneyethiopiaadoption.blogspot.com
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Ali commented on Aug 04 09 at 2:54 pmI liked it. Very Japanese. The end made me cry.
Laundry & Children commented on Aug 04 09 at 3:06 pmAs an transracial adoptive mom, I really liked it. It was beautiful in its simplicity and yet it captured some very real, very deep issues that adoptive families grapple with.
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