Entry Mission Eight: The Missing Piece

    I want to discuss the new film Instant Family and go into discussing why this film should be viewed as a family in today's generation. When the film kicks off, it ignites the characters Pete and Ellie who want children, and open their home to three children that they want to see if they would like to adopt them. The film has a great representation of a modern family, has heart, and two new parents that are willing to accept the instant effects of their home additions. My grandparents, sister, and I went to go see this film when we found the time with somewhat good intentions. To me, they were not as high as the film presents itself to be. I was shocked at how the film took the turn of focus developing the characters throughout the film.
    When you spend your life as a kid, not knowing what your parents go through every single day, yet we question taking out the trash, it strikes the heartstrings looking back at who we were in the past. Kids take advantage of the fact their parents chose to have them, raise them, and give them everything that they can mentally and physically handle. Raising children is not an easy task, to begin with, but raising children that are not from the original parents seems to be normal today. My best friend was raised by his grandmother that deserves the world and gets it every day seeing her grandchild becoming the man that he is today.
    It breaks my heart to see kids do to cause harm because they feel that they don't want to stay with their parents; the battle is living with each other because both want to, knowing the true meaning of sacrifice. The film's main focus is on the 15-year-old Izzy that wants nothing to do with Pete and Ellie when it comes to doing normal family routines. Being a teenager is already hard enough, raising a brother and sister is more difficult when you don't know who you are yourself, but accepting two new parents may just be one of the hardest tasks in this situation. There is so much awkward connections throughout the film, but that is what happens in a normal household. We get so used to who we live with, we forget what they mean to us, and we all become the perfect roommates.
    I took the film very personal on two levels, one is the brother and son in me, and the second is the father that I want to become. I have not been the best in the relationships department, but see myself as a father. I want children and have considered adoption. That may seem crazy for a man my age, but kids give me purpose, and I want them to be a major part of my life. My family is strong, I try to be the brother that my siblings deserve, but I feel like my siblings and I have an entirely different connection all the same. We are all different ages, live our own lives, but have been together all the same. A curse and blessing in the relationship that all four of us share are that we all lead ourselves, none of us looking up to each other, and fight like savages knowing that we will make up the second that we make a mistake. This movie allowed me to see that the mistakes that I have made in my life, with my family, is normal and makes us stronger to face these conflicts in order to become stronger as a family.
    It is going to get really personal, therefore I am going to go into a lot of opinion on how I saw how the movie should affect others personally. I may be a brother that goes with the flow, a man that wants to become a father, but the son that I have been is not the person I want to be stuck remaining. I may be 18, I may have got past the drama faze that teens seem to face, but my mother and father are still there for me. I owe them the world, as that is what I have received my entire life. I can be in someone else's house, separated from my brothers and sister, and never see them again. I can lose my family in a matter of seconds, and I will regret what I say to them last for the rest of my life. I could be all alone in this world, only having the friends that I make over my life, and never know the love that my home gives. I could be taking care of myself, teach myself that only a father is supposed to teach, never know the love of a mother that sees herself in a baby boy, and three of the most important individuals that I will be with for the rest of my breathing life. I don't have to start over, but I now take the time to step back and be the family member that I am meant to be. I have to share my time, my efforts, and all my strength in loving the people that have been in front of me the whole time. Most people look for people to love, but the people that I have searched for have been there. And can be gone in an instant.
Work Cited for Photo: http://www.impawards.com/2018/instant_family_ver2.html

-Brandon