Tell Me A Story: THE GOOD LIE

Marcia Norwood
America's STORYTELLER
Telling Untold Stories in Photographs, Prose and Public Speaking

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THE GOOD LIE

What is The Good Lie?

It's the name of a movie my daughters, Sarah Zheng-Kang and Faith Fu Ju, and I went to see as a part of our celebration for Faith's 12th Happy Adoption Day.

We laughed.

We cried.

We resolved anew to do whatever we can to fight injustice around the world.

Why did the screenwriter, Margaret Nagle, choose The Good Lie as the title of the movie?

Go see the movie.

Discover the good lie.

It's not depressing.

It's a story of HOPE and COURAGE.

The Good Lie

The heart of the film is the story of four immigrants to the U.S. from Sudan, (The Lost Boys) survivors of the civil war (that began in 1983) that killed millions of people, and left 20,000 children, mostly boys, walking for hundreds of miles to refugee camps.

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Screenwriter,

Margaret Nagle

inspired by the incredible true story

of The Lost Boys of Sudan said:

"My hope

is that the film

can move people,

touch them,

and also that it can

help Sudan.

What I've worked so hard to do

is to create a film that could do that,

a delivery system for peace

and for a better way of sharing our world."

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Margaret Nagle is screenwriter and television producer. She has been nominated for two Emmy Awards and won two Writers Guild of America Awards. Her first script, HBO's Warm Springs received a record-breaking 16 Emmy nominations and won five Emmys in 2005, including the Award for Best Television Movie. It also won the 2006 Writers Guild of America Award for Long Form Original Screenplay. A former actress, Nagle appeared in the cult-hit My So-Called Life as the beleaguered biology teacher Ms. Chavat

Arnold Ocens, Margaret Nagle and Kuoth Wiel talk about THE GOOD LIE.

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Below is an excerpt from Nell Minow's excellent review of The Good Lie. Click on the link to read Nell's complete review.

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It took 14 years for screenwriter Margaret Nagle to bring the wonderfully touching and inspiring "The Good Lie" to the screen.

Reese Witherspoon and Corey Stoll are in the cast, but they are supporting players. The heart of the film is the story of four immigrants to the U.S. from Sudan, survivors of the civil war that killed millions of people and left 20,000 children, mostly boys, walking for hundreds of miles to refugee camps.

Three of the actors, Ger Duany, Emmanuel Jal, and Kuoth Wiel, are themselves survivors like the characters they play. They are superb in the film, bringing not just authenticity but warmth and humor.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nell-minow/writer-margaret-nagle-tal_b_5957310.html

Nagle (screenwriter) spoke to me about her commitment to getting this story told. It began when she was selling handbags out of the trunk of her car to make money.

Nagle says the movie looks exactly the way she envisioned it over so many years, sitting in the carpool line, waiting to pick up her children. She was committed to going beyond the headlines to make the stories real and personal.

Once you see it, you get it. It goes into the emotional truth of people, to the part of their brain that isn't shut down from too much information or whatever their biases are, political or religious or geographic. It seems to go into people and crack them open, the story, in the right way and not in a manipulative way. Film is a language that everybody speaks. When you're watching the film, it doesn't matter where you are or who you are. You can respond. We watch this grand film and we drop our biases quite often, our defenses. We don't realize that but that's what we do. My hope is that the film can move people, touch them, and also that it can help Sudan. What I've worked so hard to do is to create a film that could do that, a delivery system for peace and for a better way of sharing our world.

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My favorite quote in the movie is:

"Who do I have to screw around here to see an immigration supervisor?"

I get it.

We've had our own challenges with US immigration during our daughter's international adoption journeys.

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Margaret Nagle just may be the person to write a screenplay of our daughters' amazing stories. They endured abuse, abandonment and neglect as orphans in China. They are now beautiful young women filled with faith, hope and love.

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Here's a partial list of their adoption stories on my blog:
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Tell Me A Story: OPEN YOUR HAND, FAITH
Feb 28, 2012
We wink at each other. Sarah and Faith dream up imaginary scenarios where they are biological sisters--separated at birth and joyfully reunited when adopted by American parents, but Sarah and Faith know their true life ...

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Tell Me A Story: OVERFLOWING
Nov 17, 2013
We were in the process of adopting our second daughter, Faith Fu Ju, in the summer of 2002. We kept pictures of Fu Ju, on the refrigerator during the nine months we waited to adopt her through Holt
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Tell Me A Story: 2013 JOURNEY TO CHRISTMAS ...
Dec 22, 2013
She graduates from high school in 2014, and is working to earn academic and sport/swimming scholarships. Marcia wrote part of Faith's adoption story. It is featured in the April 2013 edition of ADOPTION TODAY magazine.

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HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY 2014: MY CUP RUNNETH OVER
May 10, 2014
AND pregnant with (adoption) paperwork. for nine months with each girl. Sarah Zheng-Kang and Faith Fu Ju. walked into my life at hotels in China: Sarah in 1999, and Faith in 2002. God gave me the amazing opportunity.
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