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Fabbricante di lacrime (2024)
Too much romance and not enough story
The film is Italian made and dubbed. The story is about a unrelated young man and a young woman who spend years in an orphanage and then they are placed for adoption. When they are in their mid to late teens they are placed in an adoptive home. The couple who plan to adopt them are nice people who have themselves lost a son. They also fail to realize that the two young people lived in an abusive situation at the orphanage and they were traumatized. The young people also have a sublimated romantic relationship which starts blossom in their new surroundings. In the second part of the film there are a lot of romantic scenes as well as an attempted rape.
As my title indicates, there are a lot of romantic scenes in the movie, but the plot is also very thin.
American Nightmare (2024)
Shocking police and FBI work
I thought that this was a great series that centered on the abduction and rape of a young woman. The thing that impressed me the most is that both the Vallejo, CA police and the FBI blew it. Why? It seems like they assumed that the girl's boyfriend and the girl herself fabricated the story. As the series tells us the real hero was a woman police officer who found evidence and then she made sure that the blame was laid where it should have been. This series illustrates that law enforcement often makes assumptions without evidence and gets away with it. Sadly, that is not the case with most crime dramas.
Daughter from Danang (2002)
An International adoptee who didn't get it.
I work in the adoption field and I found this documentary to be a very interesting piece about an adoptee who is reunited with her birth family. I also found the final part of this documentary quite shocking and hard to take. However, as many others have commented, Heidi was poorly prepared for the moment when her birth siblings asked her to take care of her Mom or to send money to support her. To top it off, the person who had accompanied her left early without apparently warning her that this would happen. I don't want to judge Heidi, but I do hope as many other commenters have indicated, that Heidi will in time try to come to terms with her birth family. It is great that she has the love and support of her husband and two daughters, but it is very sad that her adoptive mother failed her miserably. If she is to be a more complete human being, Heidi needs to learn more about her Asian roots and culture and to form a meaningful relationship with her birth family. They were all victims!