Savanah Leaf's nuanced, vital debut looks at motherhood, poverty, and all the ways systems keep us down. nataliakeogan's review of Earth Mama:
actress Taylor Russell. Both films were made in response to Leaf’s younger sister entering the family through adoption when she tested positive for methamphetamines shortly after her mother gave birth. Whileadopts a documentary approach to depict five women navigating poverty, addiction, homelessness and abuse while still trying to raise their children,hones in on what one woman’s plight signifies for the lack of resources for maligned mothers across the country .
Either way, it’s clear the filmmaker was deeply touched by her brief interaction with her sister’s birth mother, andgoes as far as reconstructing Leaf’s own family dynamic at the time of the adoption while rooting the film in the now-estranged birth mother’s perspective. There’s still an element of unshakable realism embedded in the films core, owed greatly to the largely non-professional Bay Area actors that form Gia’s immediate social circle and Nomore’s resonant performance.
It is nonetheless vital for the film to presuppose that Gia’s conflict between keeping her child or putting them up for adoption is one born from precocity and scarcity. Indicting the cruelty of capitalism – which makes it virtually impossible for a single mother working full-time to support herself and her children – is the very point of Leaf’s thesis.
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