The film,
The Kids Are All Right is an American comedy-drama film directed by Lisa Cholodenko who made an awful attempt to make any meaningful purpose of this movies story line. This movie is a 2010 creation and differs from a lot of films by showing gay and lesbian relationships and artificial insemination. The film started off with a lesbian couple, Jules (Julianne Moore) the "hippy-chill mom" and Nic (Annette Bening) the "whiney, controlling mom" living in California with their two children. They both had children who were conceived from an anonymous sperm donor Paul (Mark Ruffalo). Unfortunately, from the beginning the family appears to be in the stages of a crisis with the most awkward conversations and acting I have ever seen. The plot turns when the children decide they want to meet their biological father out of curiosity, which leads to the downfall of their little family.
The Kids Are All Right seemed to have some potential in the beginning but as the plot dragged on many obvious predictions kept occurring of what what was going to happen next... This kept happening until the very end when everything in the plot that had some potential fell apart and destroyed any chance of the movie becoming anything more than a nuisance to watch. This movie will make any person want to go back to movie counter and get their money back. I would not suggest it to anyone.
The Kids Are All Right .. I guess
First review in. Good job, Jessica.
ReplyDeleteI think it was important that this movie was made because there is never any positive or even visible depictions of LGBT families as the focus in big box office movies. Although this is true, I struggle to support this movie due to the poor execution of plot line and the stereotypical story of children wanting, or needing to find that father figure in their lives because two gay moms just don't cut it. Well personally, I believe that this is an unrealistic situation and should not be the building blocks of LGBT visibility in mainstream cinema. We need to see same sex couples raising families that are successful, not showing people who are most likely already ignorant to how successful a same sex couple could be a raising a family, that the family will inevitably fall apart.
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