Review of Love Is All You Need? (2016) by Michele L — 14 Nov 2016

We saw the premier of this feature film last night at the Napa Valley Film Festival, followed by a Q&A with the director/screenwriter K. Rocco Shields. She prefaced the viewing by saying the goal was to create empathy, rather than sympathy, with the characters and the situations.

She succeeded. The film knits a haircloth of intolerance, love, bullying, ignorance, acceptance, fanaticism, parenting, and persecution that left us feeling raw. Sadly, the narrative is all too real. The bullying quotes were pulled directly from social media, the events from actual hate crimes, and it illustrates the the rabid intolerance of other viewpoints that is all too present in our current political wake.