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New release from Netflix, 'The Lost Children'
I'm not an overly sensitive woman, although I am to some degree, I think politics has hardened my sensitive side. All of that hardness was tossed down the drain this morning after watching a new Netflix release called, 'The Lost Children'. I was the one that lost it by the end of this documentary. I couldn't stop weeping. Why would this be so emotional for me? I think for the same reasons it will be for anyone that watches this documentary.
Many of us recall that in 2023, a small airplane went down in the Colombian Amazon jungle. The mother and pilot were both found dead in the wreckage, but her four children were not found. To get to the end quickly to save typing, four brothers and sisters (2 boys 2 girls), aged between 11 months and 13 years old, had been traveling on a small plane that crashed over a remote part of the Amazon, killing the three adults on board, including their mother, a member of the Indigenous Huitoto people. The four children were found alive, but not until an extensive search had gone on for 40 days. The oldest child was Lesly, who was just 13 years old and injured, but kept the other three siblings, ages nine, five and 1-year-old baby alive.
I'm going to shortcut some of the reasons this was an extraordinary film. The Colombian Army and the Indigenous people in the Amazon, have always been mortal enemies. The children came from an Indigenous tribe, so when the Army started the search, it didn't take long for the Indigenous people to join, even though wary of the Army, in the search for the children. The film documents the search and rescue. It was heartbreaking, and yet heartwarming, how these desperate children survived, but heartwarming to see the two 'enemies' become one force with one common goal.
Here's the kicker to this story. Lesly, the oldest girl, had been horribly physically abused by her father. He joined in the search. Lesly knew that people were searching for them, this is why she kept moving through the Amazon, trying to escape what was intended to be their salvation because she feared her abusive father. This is why it took so long to find these children, she did not want to be found.
I have no doubt that this film is going to win many awards. It's profound.
I'm not an overly sensitive woman, although I am to some degree, I think politics has hardened my sensitive side. All of that hardness was tossed down the drain this morning after watching a new Netflix release called, 'The Lost Children'. I was the one that lost it by the end of this documentary. I couldn't stop weeping. Why would this be so emotional for me? I think for the same reasons it will be for anyone that watches this documentary.
Many of us recall that in 2023, a small airplane went down in the Colombian Amazon jungle. The mother and pilot were both found dead in the wreckage, but her four children were not found. To get to the end quickly to save typing, four brothers and sisters (2 boys 2 girls), aged between 11 months and 13 years old, had been traveling on a small plane that crashed over a remote part of the Amazon, killing the three adults on board, including their mother, a member of the Indigenous Huitoto people. The four children were found alive, but not until an extensive search had gone on for 40 days. The oldest child was Lesly, who was just 13 years old and injured, but kept the other three siblings, ages nine, five and 1-year-old baby alive.
I'm going to shortcut some of the reasons this was an extraordinary film. The Colombian Army and the Indigenous people in the Amazon, have always been mortal enemies. The children came from an Indigenous tribe, so when the Army started the search, it didn't take long for the Indigenous people to join, even though wary of the Army, in the search for the children. The film documents the search and rescue. It was heartbreaking, and yet heartwarming, how these desperate children survived, but heartwarming to see the two 'enemies' become one force with one common goal.
Here's the kicker to this story. Lesly, the oldest girl, had been horribly physically abused by her father. He joined in the search. Lesly knew that people were searching for them, this is why she kept moving through the Amazon, trying to escape what was intended to be their salvation because she feared her abusive father. This is why it took so long to find these children, she did not want to be found.
I have no doubt that this film is going to win many awards. It's profound.
