Short Term 12

Don’t read this if you want to watch the movie yourself, it’s full of spoilers. Short Term 12 is a film filled with all kinds of emotions: happiness, sadness, fear, depression, hurt, loneliness, love, pain, but mostly togetherness. Throughout the film, all of the kids have their own problems as well as the people in charge of them, they’ve all had their fair share of rough patches in life. Mason was adopted by some of the best foster parents in the world. Grace lost her mom at a young age and her father was abusive. She really connected with this girl, Jayden, who was currently going through the same thing. Grace’s father was being released from prison soon and she couldn’t talk about it until after she had helped Jayden. Oh, and did I forget to mention that Grace was pregnant with Mason’s baby and he proposed to her? This kid Marcus had a rough life before he came to their facility and after he let things started to get brighter for him and his life was starting to turn around, he was seeing the bright side of things. This film allowed for the viewer to feel the emotions that the characters were feeling. In the end of the movie, Mason got his girl, Grace talked about her feelings, Jayden was turning her dad in, and Marcus found his girl, had a job, and was applying to college. This movie showed the reality of the world and I think there needs to be more movies like this.