The new documentary “Into Light” focusses on “the centripetal force of a parent’s expectations, which keep pulling our children back to us as we try to control what they will become,” TanaWojczuk writes. Watch here.
McDonald knew her subject, who is unnamed in the film, before she was pregnant; they even lived in the same house for a while.
Against a chilly Canadian landscape, the woman imagines her child into being. Even after her son is born, she imagines a personality and future dreams. We parents rarely recognize our own expectations as fantasies, but our children teach us otherwise. “Into Light” is ultimately about the centripetal force of a parent’s expectations, which keep pulling our children back to us as we try to control what they will become, and what happens when that force shifts and the child pulls out of our orbit. The fantastical icescapes make an argument for the ways the internal narratives of fairy tale and fantasy shape our expectations.
Her mother describes her new role as a caretaker—though she is also a bouncer, on the alert for any places where her child might be criticized or attacked. Every playdate must be carefully thought out, every after-school activity, “every moment where she might have to use the washroom.”
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