The Kids Are All Right ( 2010 )

The Kids Are All Right , was never released in Trinidad and Tobago , so look out for it at you local DVD vendor .

The story line is really simple , and only gets complicated . Eighteen years and nine months ago , a loving couple get pregnant by means of artificial insemination . Three years later , so does the partner . Yup lesbian couple , with half brother and sister , using the same sperm donor . No Problem we are hip society , we are down with that .

Fast forward to the eighteen birthday of the older child , and forms filled out with request for Daddy's name ; and of course fifteen year old brother know that is his papa too . Sneaking around behind mommies' back , the three of them with their shared DNA , meet .

Later to bring Moms into the picture , and slowly the entire ball of string unravels .

The core to this film , Who is your Daddy ? or What is your Daddy ? Asking modern day question for families outside the normal nuclear family . Even within the context of this story there is four members of the family , two parents and two children , keeping the space in the house normal . But as usual what happen when an outside person is brought in , where do they fit ? How does it work ?

Threatening are the normals , not the heterosexual normal , but the normals of the last 18 years of their own little bubble . Why do things change ? And can we keep them from changing .

Annette Bening received a Oscar nomination for Best Actress , and got snubbed for Natalie Portman in Black Swan .

The Film has had good reviews in all quarters , EXCEPT for the Lesbian community .

The cry is that all films involving Lesbians are apologetic , as is this one . Even though the director is an open lesbian . The community complained of the girl-girl sex scenes , and their misbehaver outside the bedroom . And truth be told , I could see the film very easily been drafted into a heterosexual movie , and remove the lesbian element from the film .

The film is worth being seen , though it may not be for everyone , themes are for the enlightened and not the bias . The film portraits the "alternative lifestyle" not as normal , but accepted .

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