I wanted to create a thread for Documentaries generally- has anyone checked out Unknown Number: The High School Catfish (Netflix).
It’s an hour and a half but very through provoking. Those poor kids!
My coworker was telling me about that today! I’m going to check it out!
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Yes please do and let me know what you think.
Related but a factionalized account of the true story is The Devil On Campus: The Larry Ray Story
It was quite the ride! I’ll type more when I’m at a computer so I can use spoiler tags more effectively.
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I can’t wait to read your thoughts.
For the record I’m 39 and I don’t have kids, but I have spent a fair amount of time around teens. I clocked pretty quickly based on the language pattern that this wasn’t another child but an adult. I assumed it was a coach or a teacher that was unhinged and inappropriate (obviously) but I never would’ve dream it was one of their parents! And the girl’s own mother!!
I was horrified. Often times when a parent has issues with their child growing up they shelter them- they would forbid the relationship or manipulate them into breaking up, but to harass her own daughter with those nasty messages and to go after another young lady Owen was dating. And then to claim “everyone makes mistakes”- no ma’am, most of us don’t sexually harass CHILDREN.
Her sentence was light, but she and her daughter will never have a “normal” relationship again, she won’t ever be able to trust her.
I felt terribly for the father as well. He had his head in the sand about the finances but who would assume their spouse would do such a thing.
An instagram account I follow, Deep South Korean, recommended this documentary to me Between Goodbyes.
A queer Korean adoptee, raised in the Netherlands, reconnects with her biological family and all of the emotional complexities that entails. I’m very happy that adoptees have a chance to tell their stories and the documentary was very well done (I’m not finished but I wanted to share with anyone that would be interested).