Books and Movies

Yesterday was my gay culture day, decided to buy Ricky Martin's book and went to see a movie called "La Otra Familia". I'll tell you about the book once I read it but for now let's discuss the movie.


As not to give to much away I'll just quote the first paragraph of the movie's synopsis: "Abandoned for 3 days by his Crack addicted Mother, Hendrix, a 7 year old boy is rescued by a friend and given to a homosexual couple to take care of the child."


First off I'd advise people to go see it, it is a moving story that does touch several emotional strings and it's also an insightful look at the issues the gay community encounters when trying to become a family in todays society, that said, the movie has one big flaw, director Gustavo Loza in my humble opinion should have perhaps focused more on the main story of the child and his adoptive parents making the movie more concise and to the point, there is a side story of a lesbian couple that wants to become pregnant that simply get's lost within the script and takes some meaning away from the main story, I think that should be another movie altogether.


I doubt this movie will make it anytime soon to the US, but if it does and you are queer friendly, I'd ask you to go see it or perhaps wait till it comes out in Amazon or Netflix or something like that, there is an important message within the movie, a message that shows how sometimes the prejudice of certain people makes them assume things that are simply not true and in that assumption they pretty much can destroy people's lives without true knowledge of what is really happening.