I didn't know much about this film going in, but I am glad I saw it.
The challenging environment that this family meets head on in this intriguing movie shows the ability of humans to adapt beautifully to stressful situations. And Steve James made a brilliant film that observes this process.
I found Reel Paradise to be engrossing from start to finish. Every scene is a gem of reality that TV series can only hope to match. And the Pierson family, parents John and Janet and children Wyatt and Georgia, are fascinating individually and as a unit.
Anthropologists will find the push and pull of the cultures to be of great interest. Candor abounds. The Piersons are to be applauded for letting Steve James peer so deeply into their lives. And I would only hope that every child in the country could be so tough and strong as Georgia and Wyatt.
I haven't had a film "go by so fast" in quite a while.
The challenging environment that this family meets head on in this intriguing movie shows the ability of humans to adapt beautifully to stressful situations. And Steve James made a brilliant film that observes this process.
I found Reel Paradise to be engrossing from start to finish. Every scene is a gem of reality that TV series can only hope to match. And the Pierson family, parents John and Janet and children Wyatt and Georgia, are fascinating individually and as a unit.
Anthropologists will find the push and pull of the cultures to be of great interest. Candor abounds. The Piersons are to be applauded for letting Steve James peer so deeply into their lives. And I would only hope that every child in the country could be so tough and strong as Georgia and Wyatt.
I haven't had a film "go by so fast" in quite a while.