Title: Uplifting
Product review: Narrated by Nicole Kidman and produced by Brad Pitt, this documentary is about the thousands of male children who fled Sudan's civil war between the Muslim North and the Christian animist South in 1983. This story of the the Lost Boys, as they came to be known, manages to be pleasant and uplifting. It leaves you not with revulsion at the horrors the boys experienced, but with hope for their future.The film follows three young men who are among 3,800 survivors handpicked by an international rescue committee to start a new life in the United States. They must leave behind friends and siblings in Kenya's Kakuma refugee camp for a cultural crash course in the U.S.What impressed me most was the mature humanity of these very young boys in taking care of one another and creating community. The lack of community in the U.S. is stark by comparison. Some of those trained here are now using the gifts the U.S. does have to provide leadership in Africa to overcome the past destruction.
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