Wow! Such a good movie.

The Age of Commercialism

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Blistering performances.

It was interesting to see the back story of someone who would go this far to disassociate themselves from reality. But in a way you can see that she's not fallen as far from the tree as she imagines, the white savior like her parents, adopting black children, just in a different way, fueled by religious fervor of a moral crusade. Her artistic skill is surprisingly good, its a shame she wasted it to become part of the diversity and grievance industry. But that's the thing this film reveals, she can barely fix her own life let alone anyone elses, a single mother, divorced, saddled with many children, while divorced has another child against the fathers wishes while she has no job. Is she trying to live an ugly stereotype and bring it to life? The doc does fail to really delve deeper into what she got herself into, the vast infrastructure of the diversity industry. How this nobody became a NAACP branch president, where did they get their money, how was she teaching courses in colleges? The vast flows of money to create these human networks of diversity propagandists is something a netflix doc is never going to deal with, and that's too bad, because it destroys lives, not just Rachels, but those it indoctrinates with the poison of a history and identity of grievance. She might have been a decent artist, maybe even a history teacher, if she had not tried to be what she was not and had spent her time on herself rather than trying to be the white savior. When she joined the game of identity politics she learned the lesson that the content of her character meant nothing. That is the lesson of her life, and this film.

First, people can dress and be whoever they want. However, they can't pretend to be something and force others to go along with it. There is a double standard with so many. Transgenders and others who suffer from gender dysphoria are celebrated, even get the woman of the year (Bruce Jenner, even though he is a man), but Rachel is shunned by everyone.The movie definitely was more than sympathetic to her and tried to normalize transracial. Not surprising from Netflix.The documentary was a bit disjointed. It took about 45 minutes to get some basic facts like she was brought up with several adopted black kids, that she was married to a black man, instead of her kids being adopted. To me, that wasn't and shouldn't have been a plot point or a reveal. It should have come in the beginning so you are not confused throughout. It took an hour to figure out one of her kids was adopted.You don't become another gender or ace just because you feel like it. You can dress like it, but there are so many implications for identifying as another gender or race and not being honest with yourself and others about your true being is problematic.She even at one point tries to argue why we are obsessed with DIFFERENT races (saying just one human race), but then insist she is black (a different race). a total contradiction.People with race/gender identity issues should deal with them psychologically because that is what they are. If you can't find some way to live with who you are born as, find a way to live the way you want to be, but don't get to have others to accept you if they don't want to. You shouldn't be the victim of violence because of it, but if you choose to live a certain way, there will be consequences. It's part of life.The film presents the opposing views as an onslaught of intolerant positions. The most frustrating thing was that all the legitimate questions raised by callers, audience members, radio and tv hosts etc, were never answered. The movie was too long and was too repetitive. I learned there is a lot of shame that is the basis for dysphoria. I think most people at one point have questioned their own identity, but it is coming to terms of who you are that is freeing, not rejecting it. She is not a bad person. She means well. She is just not honest and she is delusional and it obviously affected others that didn't want to be a part of it. She is, however, an amazing painter.The lesson was you can't change your race because you "feel" like it, but somehow you are allowed to change your gender if you "feel" like it. A total double standard.

Rachel Dolezal became well known to us when she was forced to confess that she is "born white". And after that I have always been thinking "wth!". So obviously I didn't want to miss this documentary.And you know, I am glad I didn't. It is very well done trying to be objective and giving the voice to pretty much everyone involved. I always felt bad for Rachel even though I think that while she can do whatever she wants with her hair and love any culture, if she thinks this makes her black, she needs a therapist. But what she did was pretty harmless and not out of malice. And yes it seems like some sort of escape from reality, finding herself, finding love and belonging among black people. I want to add that I am not very quick to accept her explanation that their parents abused them. Even if it was supported by the siblings. Because there is at least one other adopted brother who denies those stories, he was not in the movie. So I neither accept nor reject it. It is their family feud and I rather have them resolve it themselves.But no matter what this movie gave me a better understanding of Rachel, her family, people who support her and people who think that what she did was wrong. The movie gave us a lot of footage and a lot of voice. And yes, I think this is a valid topic to discuss. Hope it works out for them all.

What i saw was a hatchet job with very entertaining footage anyone can find on youtube twitter and social media. how was it even possible to play a movie like that? anyway noone ever gives the subject a chance to speak its mostly black women screaming at the top of their lungs not allowing her to speak for her self. i don't think it was a good film as it puts words in her mouth. and the little she did speak it was just enough to reel you in but there was no justice really done for her. i feel sorry for what her has had to go through with the media taking advantage of her. she also didn't get paid for this film yet it is a hot top and making the production lot of money while they are touring the world with this film seems highly unfair.