crussell444
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Cynthia Moss first met Echo when she moved to Kenya. She followed her family for more than 35 years. During that time she also categorized many other elephant families naming each member with the same first letter of the alphabet. She started with E, but over time she had so many families that she had to move on to the AAs and the BBs etc.
While this particular film is primarily about Echo and her family, Cynthia and the narrator manage to slip in many facts about elephants, their declining population and the very real threat of extinction due to the ivory trade.
It is at once a heartwarming story of a family and a tutorial on elephants and conservation. Some of the footage is truly amazing especially when you consider there is one cameraman on location with limited resources.
While this particular film is primarily about Echo and her family, Cynthia and the narrator manage to slip in many facts about elephants, their declining population and the very real threat of extinction due to the ivory trade.
It is at once a heartwarming story of a family and a tutorial on elephants and conservation. Some of the footage is truly amazing especially when you consider there is one cameraman on location with limited resources.
This was the most genuine portrayal of lesbian love and passion that I ever recall viewing. Fear of same sex relationships remains a problem of early socialization in our society to this day. In spite of celebrated people "coming out", gay marriage and famous transsexuals,internalized and externalized homophobia remains to a great extent in America.
This is a realistic story of two straight women, one woman overcoming her fears and another falling in love with a woman after the loss of her male fiancé, falling in love. The timing of the development of their relationship is absolutely genuine.
There is a fair amount of sex in this movie, but there is also a demonstration of gentle caring, affection, compassion and love. While their relationship starts as a business transaction over time it begins to subtly change and build into a real loving relationship. The characters are two women, but could easily have been two men or a man and a woman.
What it did for me was convincingly illustrate how a lesbian relationship is not different from any other loving relationship. It was refreshing to see two women in love depicted as being in love instead of "in lust". This is something that seems not to be portrayed as clearly in other LGBT films.
The ending was not a surprise until the daughter showed up at the art gallery. The interaction between her and her mother's lover was the icing on the cake. The only thing that I found a little distressing was that the sons did not seem appropriately saddened by the loss of their mother.
This is a great film that I would recommend wholeheartedly to anyone not looking for an action flick.
This is a realistic story of two straight women, one woman overcoming her fears and another falling in love with a woman after the loss of her male fiancé, falling in love. The timing of the development of their relationship is absolutely genuine.
There is a fair amount of sex in this movie, but there is also a demonstration of gentle caring, affection, compassion and love. While their relationship starts as a business transaction over time it begins to subtly change and build into a real loving relationship. The characters are two women, but could easily have been two men or a man and a woman.
What it did for me was convincingly illustrate how a lesbian relationship is not different from any other loving relationship. It was refreshing to see two women in love depicted as being in love instead of "in lust". This is something that seems not to be portrayed as clearly in other LGBT films.
The ending was not a surprise until the daughter showed up at the art gallery. The interaction between her and her mother's lover was the icing on the cake. The only thing that I found a little distressing was that the sons did not seem appropriately saddened by the loss of their mother.
This is a great film that I would recommend wholeheartedly to anyone not looking for an action flick.