Gayby Baby
(2015)
Country: Australia
Genre: Documentary
Synopsis
Documentary film following the lives of four children - Gus, Ebony, Matt and Graham - whose parents are either gay or lesbian. 10 year old Gus is passionate about the macho world of WWE wrestling, but his mothers disapprove. With a big wrestling show coming to Sydney, Gus must change their views if he is to be allowed to attend. 12 year old Ebony struggles to find her place in the outer suburbs of Sydney. She dreams of being a pop singer and hopes to get into a prestigious school for the performing arts. 11 year old Graham can?t read and is desperate to become literate. But his quest is complicated when his fathers move the family to Fiji, a conservative place where they do not feel comfortable to be 'out'. Faced with hiding his family and re-establishing himself in a new country, Graham?s goal seems more distant than ever. Finally, faced with conflicting messages, 11 year old Matt has taken to questioning everything that the adult world is teaching him.
Cast
- Gus
(Himself) - Ebony
- Graham
(Himself) - Matt
(Himself)
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It's a likeable and interesting documentary but you can tell from the opening sequence of audio clips that the aim is to present these families as normal and unremarkable and the film tries so hard to do that that it ends up dodging some difficult questions. Fictional films such Juno, The Kids Are All Right and If These Walls Could Talk 2 deliberately gloss over the ethically thorny aspects of adoption and gamete selling and donation. Being a documentary, this doesn't; it just misses an opportunity for a more searching look.
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Extraordinary documentary. It made me understand how and what a child thinks and does with parents who think differently. Good looking.