Friday, November 25, 2011
MODERN TIMES
Today, the final and best Lisa Cholodenko film, the near Oscar winner and a NYTime Critics' Pick
with Annette Bening, Juliane Moore and Mark Ruffalo.
The two teen children of a lesbian couple want to find their biological father and succeed. The "fun" begins here with the new "family" which, of course, is no family at all.
There is a lot of drama here which is very funny and to the point about the so called "new families" of which I suspect John and I are a part. Well, not suspect, "know". We can see people processing the phrase "our kids", for example. We have gotten a lot of that action in the past weeks as the actual kids have visited us.
Adding surrogate and missing "dads" makes the mix even more different for even the people involved to process.
The moms are the perfect new parent with all the jargon and little preachinesses that they think avoid being preachy. The new preachy.
Until someone makes a big mistake in modernity and the people involved have to stop being "modern" and just revert to defending the territory.
Very good. Second time out for this one. A five out of Netflix5.
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