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The Kids Are Alright (my family)

There is a strange feeling that emerges when you finish viewing this film could verbalized something similar to "what happened here? "(specifically, in the final act). Lisa Cholodenko, who directs and writes The Kids Are Alright has a history of working in television on such shows as Six Feet Under or The L Word . Homosexual is discovered early in his youth, and now lives in a relationship with a singer with whom he has a son, conceived via anonymous sperm donor. Why this emphasis on the details of his private life? For indeed The Kids Are Alright making various elements of the life of the director, and without being an autobiographical film, no doubt claim that is at least fairly personal to the author.

Nic and Jules (Annette Bening and Juliane Moore respectively) are a gay couple with two teenage children, Joni and Laser (if ... Laser), both conceived with sperm from the same donor, one each mother. A few days before going to college, Joni (Mia Wasikowska), responding to the curiosity of her brother, decides to contact the donor, Paul (Mark Ruffalo). The three begin to grow fond of, which leads to opposite reactions to their mothers, while Nic is opposed to the link that really upset her family, Jules agrees to decorate the garden of Paul and ends (from nothing) sleeping with him.

The problem with The Kids Are Alright is that the "statement" in favor of the functionality of a family with two mothers, homosexuals, is built from a base of the head visible resentment toward heterosexual and more specifically, humans. The background to the drama (it is hard to read this film as a comedy) in the eyes of the filmmaker is the inclusion of heterosexual disruptor element of harmony and not the complex relationships that pre-exist in the film the appearance of Ruffalo's character. Given the opportunity to create a film to shorten the distances, Cholodenko seems to use everything in their power to widen, reaching a resolution that is practically impossible to communicate. In their eagerness to turn Paul into the "bad guy", the director leaves it entirely on the final, denying the possibility of closing and ignoring the bond that the audience has established with him. The truth is that all the characters in the film, is perhaps that of Ruffalo with whom he fell in love us, but we must accept in the last ten minutes which is "the villain" and should suffer so, leaving aside the almost two hours earlier, which saw him learning to love their children and seeking to stabilize them at his side. Meanwhile, Jules and Nic, characters that could be even more "reprehensible" to Paul for his actions in the film, are redeemed and exalted by Cholodenko without much explanation or credibility.

If there is anything that saves watching The Kids Are Alright , are the efforts of the protagonists, particularly Wasikowska, to give credibility and depth to these characters over the shortcomings of the script. Ruffalo shines with the little he has the character to work. Moore Bening and do their best with their characters (which still is not enough in the case of Moore, when saving the final pompous speech.)

Just for the value of interpretations is that this movie gets a ...

2.0/5.0

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