Mondays at Racine (2012)
85th Academy Awards 2013
3/5 Stars
Nominated for 1 award.
Nominated for Best Documentary Short (Cynthia Wade, Robin Honan).
Watched March 12, 2014.
Mondays at Racine is a well done documentary short that is so much more than just a story about women with cancer. The two sisters who own a hair salon open their doors to women diagnosed with cancer once a month and give out much more than a free hair cut.
The story follows a couple women with breast cancer, while featuring a few others. The owners' roles in the film are very small. They have painful, personal experience with cancer, but they also realize that in our society, and especially in Jersey, women have a very distinct idea of what beauty is. They want women to feel beautiful, especially when going through cancer because they have enough to worry about already. This is their way of giving back, and they make a good point that they get so much out of the experience that is is almost selfish. It makes them forget or dismiss their own troubles while helping these women.
One of the main cancer fighters has been fighting for years, defying all odds and living over a decade beyond what the doctors told her she would live. She mentors younger women with recent diagnoses in emotional aspects, but also when it comes to surgery and treatments.
It was a great forty minutes watching this film, but I cried a lot. The story telling was okay, the editing was okay, but the people were phenomenal. Our world emphasizes beauty, and these women are truly beautiful.
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