January 18

My internet was out for awhile this afternoon so I was starting to worry about getting the Genre-ary done today. Thankfully it came back early in the evening and I was able to watch a documentary on Netflix.

Daughters was placed on my list when I saw this one mentioned on Dan Murrell’s Year end best of video.

According to IMDB, “Four young girls prepare for a special Daddy Daughter Dance with their incarcerated fathers, as part of a unique fatherhood program in a Washington, D.C. jail.”

This doc does a fantastic job interacting with these four girls and their fathers. The emotions were raw for everyone involved. These people were all very nervous and scared over coming together for this dance.

The film did a great job of building up the feelings prior to the Daddy Daughter Dance which made the moment when these little girls were walking down the hallway toward their fathers all the more powerful. I actually thought to myself, what if one of the girls did not show up, what would that be like for the fathers? You could see how the doc had created this connection for me.

It ended with some unbelievable stat that said something like 95% of the Daddies in the Daddy Dance never returned to prison after being released. What an amazing stat if that is true.

It was an impressive documentary and it was very well constructed and designed.