Grace Lee
Searching For Angela Shelton and The Grace Lee Project were both similar and different filmes in respect to each other. They were both documentaries about their lives in a sense, and they both featured the main actress traveling the world to find as many women as they could with their same names. However, I thought that Searching For Angela Shelton had more of a purpose to the film. It seemed as if Angela Shelton was looking for closure through all of the women that she met and wanted to get her story out there so that other women knew there was a way out if they were suffering from any of the same issues as Angela did. The Grace Lee Project just seemed to be a woman named Grace Lee looking for other women named Grace Lee and hearing their stories. There was no mention of alcohol or physical abuse in the Grace Lee film whereas, in the Angela Shelton film, it seemed to be the topic of conversation. With the gender and race topic, I felt that the Angela Shelton film was more focused on gender and not so much race and the Grace Lee film was more focused on race. Both films emphasized how and what women, with the same names as them, were feeling about their lives and wanting to hear their stories.