I have no personal connection to this topic, being neither an adoptive parent nor an adoptee, but I was moved to tears by this documentary. The young women portrayed were "old souls" with tremendous hearts. I left the theater feel emotionally full, and deeply honored to have met them all.
I was in tears almost the whole film. I was moved by their fears, sorrow, regret, hope, love, and just everything about their stories.
I'm not adopted or anything, but I always loved social documentaries, and hearing other people's stories. I don't care much for fictional dramas, because life is a real drama.
I too was very moved by this film. I was especially moved by the story of Run-yi, the very young girl with cerebral palsy. If you could call her lucky about anything in her life she was very lucky to have crossed paths with Fang "Jenni" who saw something special in her eyes. Run-yi's chance encounter with this beautiful young woman opened the door for the possibility for her to escape the most likely fate of growing up unadopted and left to being raised in an orphanage until she was an adult and possibly beyond since they had already written her off as "hopeless" by those caring for her due to her disability. The scene showing Run-yi preparing to leave the orphanage with her appearing so happy and upbeat about going abroad and meeting her Mama for the first time, then contrasting that with the later scene at the hotel when she realized she was really going and said she didn't want to go alone and started crying filled me with the despair she must have been feeling in that moment. For such young children to be taken from their home country and the only home they have ever known to go to live with their adoptive families albeit a better choice than the orphanages they came from is so heart wrenching.
I cried several times during watching this film. To see these beautiful, intelligent, talented young women feel they were "less than" because they had been abandoned simply for being the wrong gender broke my heart. They appeared at once self confident and happy but also sad as if a part of them would always be missing.
Beautifully said!
shareI have just finished watching this remarkable film. One of the most moving moments was the incredible love and pain on Haley's father's face at the reunion in China after DNA tests. The loss of this daughter, a decision apparently made by his wife who already had three daughters, must have been a constant presence in his life. What a shame that this film grossed only $193,000.
shareSaw this tonight. Great film...I am a guy in his 40's, and was crying through much of it, dammit. I admire these young women a great deal.
I hope little Run-yi is doing well...she seemed like such a happy child in spite of all that she has had to endure.
... old thread, but i was emotionally moved by this documentary as well. Had planned to see it some time ago as it was of interest to me personally, but never got around to it until I re-discovered it recently.
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