The Netflix Challenge continues on the non-fiction tip with the powerful documentary, Off and Running.This is the very interesting story of Avery, a young girl struggling to find herself. Nothing super special about that, except Avery is the teen-aged African-American daughter of two white Jewish lesbians.
We meet Avery as she begins efforts to contact her birth mother. The decision to do so effects everyone in the family, including her multiracial older brother and Korean younger brother, and the film deals heavily with questions of race, identity, culture, religion and sexuality.
My mind is still reeling a little bit from this one, so I called upon Carolina to sum up the message:
"Adopting a kid and loving that kid is not enough. That kid might need more and you have to make your peace with that. No matter how loving and giving your home is, that kid will always have questions."
The most important thing is Off and Running is off the queue and we've got just 60 more titles to go.
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