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Twinsters (2015)
extremely emotional
This documentary was very well done. I wept through most of it, struck by how nearly impossible it was to tell one sister from the other when they were not speaking. I'm so glad that Anais' friends discovered Samantha on Youtube and brought them together. I'm glad their growing up families where both very supportive of their reuniting and most of all, extremely glad that they both agreed to go back to S. Korea, the land of their birth. I'm happy for them that they met their foster mothers who were warm and welcoming. But as a reunited mother of a child I lost to adoption (in the US) I can't but feel horribly sad not only for the twins but for their mother who, over the past 25 years still wasn't able to break free of the horrid restraints on mothers who lose there children to adoption in Korea, and agree to meet her two wonderful daughters. I have been to Korea and realize that their social mores are very similar to what ours in the US were in the middle of the last century in the U.S., but I can't but hope that their mother will someone gather the strength it takes, after losing two of her precious babies to adoption, to agree to meet them now. If there was anything I could say to her from one mother to another, it is that meeting your lost 'babies' will set your free from the horrible bondage of loss that parting with them has locked you in. And having them and their love in your life now, will help you through whatever nightmare S. Korean society still uses to hold you down, away from your lost 'babies'. All that said, I feel Holt Agency has committed huge crimes against the parent and perhaps unplanned children of Korea by making it possible to export more children from their home country than any other nation in the world. They owe it to each and ever adoptee and their natural parents to do everything in their power to make thing right, work to bridge the gap that adoption separation and loss has caused and help families reunite and achieve some form of healing and continuity in the lives they have left to live. I wish both Anias and Samantha all the best that life has to offer as they go forward from here, hopefully, that will include meeting their 1st mother and other family members to make their loss come full-circle and given then some sense of feeling complete again beyond what their reunion to date has done
Love Notes (2007)
If adoption is part of your life, you'll love this movie
I started watching this movie because adoption was listed in the slight preview. I lost a child to adoption, thus HAD to watch this to see the outcome. I'm not sure the writing was all that good, nor the fake pregnancy get-up that believable, but the actors were convincing enough to keep me sucked in to the story line. In fact, they had me holding my breath right up until the end of the show. Being a mother who is reunited with the child she lost to adoption, the fact that the father (Antonio Cupo) in this story happens to be an adoptee, made this story even more compelling and actually believable. His eventual reaction to and dialogue concerning the possibility of his child being adopted by strangers, was very realistic. The circumstances of my son's beginnings were not all that different than those in this movie, only I didn't have the resources to track down his father and give him time to reconsider before the powers that be...adoption social workers, portrayed quite accurately in this movie...moved in for the kill, unlike this the outcome in this movie. Honestly, with what seems to be Hollywood's love of adoption in the lives of aging stars, this story and its extremely happy outcome for the parents and the baby is beyond refreshing. It makes me not care in the least about the believability of the minor details or even of the likelihood that this story could be true. It's the kind of story I wanted to be true decades ago, and truly enjoyed imagining was true while watching 'Love Notes'. Thus, I highly recommend it.
Sheng si jie (2005)
universal theme of a mothers eternal love
This movie is extremely well done in a very subtle way but does get to the basic universal human truth of the love a mother has for her child forever.
It addresses the social mores that put young mothers in hopeless situations forcing them into outcomes that they never could have imagined could have happened to them at the beginning of a relationship.
This movie not only exposes the evils of the the billions of dollars spent in the world dealing in the shameful lucrative transfer of babies for adoption... but also exposes the painful scars both mother and her lost baby carry for life...in this case the lifelong effects show in a surprisingly subtle twist in the life story of one of the main characters.
Stolen Life gets a message across that needs to be told...exposed to the light of truth.