The Good Lie

— A look at children orphaned by the Civil war in Sudan, the so-called “Lost Boys” who walked as many as a thousand miles looking for safety. I thought this would be a pseudo-documentary, but it’s much better than that. By focusing on a few kids, the story becomes a very real tale of survival, hope, adjustment, growth, guilt, gratitude, and redemption. The events that brought them to the U.S. are horrible but the inherent goodness of these Sudanese, their pride of ancestry, and, to some extent, the contrast between their morality and our first-world version, raise issues about how we value family and respect our fellow man, how lines between good and bad blur, and how our values tend to move from black and white to gray. “The Good Lie” (DVD) is worth seeing.

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[2014. 110 min. Directed by Philippe Falardeau. Starring Reese Witherspoon, Arnold Oceng, and Ger Duany.]
http://time.com/3450635/the-good-lie-movie-review/