riszla
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Enjoyed it.
Nice twist mid way. Think along the line of the hitchcock classics like Rope,Wait Until Dark, Rear Window. This movie falls in a similar style of a psychological chiller. Quite well done.
About a 17 yr old girl who accidently gets pregnant, and, because she doesn't want her parents to know, and her state only allows abortion with parental involvement, takes a road trip to Texas with her teen childhood friend to get an abortion with some LGBT themes thrown in.
At best - its a pretty average teen buddy movie.The whole abortion is treated like a painless dental routine. This is a subliminal movie with themes signalling a pro abortion stance. The buddy teen is an unwanted child with no connection to her father, as he felt trapped and walked out on the family. The boyfriend is a idiot manchild who the main character is lucky to have escaped from. Going to college after a child is portrayed as impossible.
In real life, I have changed from being pro-choice to being more pro-life. I was in the same place when I supported my GF when she got the same procedure, as we were both 'too young' but we found years later she now cannot carry a child full term without suffering the horror of miscarrages. This can be a long term complication of having an abortion for many. The clinic did not say anything to her about it, but I doubt she would have listened to what sounded a remote possibility as in a similar way to the main character the child was set to 'destroy her life plans'.
No such complications are mentioned in the movie. No moral issues about killing the fetus are covered either. It's simply a consumer choice.
Indeed, I also treated it as 'just a bunch of cells' at the time, but as the small window of time for a woman having a child - i.e. 17- 30 has now closed, leaving my GF likely childless, there is nothing but regret at what could have been.
The truth is there is, never, of course, a 'good time' to have a child. And thats why it's important it's not treated just like a dental procedure. The picture of destruction of life's possibilities, tied to unwanted responsibility when young is overwhemling. The true alternative picture is never given. At the worst it's about 12 months out of a womans working life, if not a lot less, and there is plenty of state support out there for career women with children doing all the 'life preventing' things as anyone else - going to college, rights enshrined in law, maternity pay and job rights. There should be more done - thats true. But unfortunately the activism is all about the choice to destroy, not accomodate. It seems that choice of a positive future with a child is never presented.
We now face incredible levels of demographic decline, wholly caused by such easy 'dental visit' access to abortion, and the levels of childnessless poses very very severe problems for our economy and everyones future, so these kind of pro choice movies, like the choice to smoke, need to be assessed on what the full price of such choices mean.
In real life, I have changed from being pro-choice to being more pro-life. I was in the same place when I supported my GF when she got the same procedure, as we were both 'too young' but we found years later she now cannot carry a child full term without suffering the horror of miscarrages. This can be a long term complication of having an abortion for many. The clinic did not say anything to her about it, but I doubt she would have listened to what sounded a remote possibility as in a similar way to the main character the child was set to 'destroy her life plans'.
No such complications are mentioned in the movie. No moral issues about killing the fetus are covered either. It's simply a consumer choice.
Indeed, I also treated it as 'just a bunch of cells' at the time, but as the small window of time for a woman having a child - i.e. 17- 30 has now closed, leaving my GF likely childless, there is nothing but regret at what could have been.
The truth is there is, never, of course, a 'good time' to have a child. And thats why it's important it's not treated just like a dental procedure. The picture of destruction of life's possibilities, tied to unwanted responsibility when young is overwhemling. The true alternative picture is never given. At the worst it's about 12 months out of a womans working life, if not a lot less, and there is plenty of state support out there for career women with children doing all the 'life preventing' things as anyone else - going to college, rights enshrined in law, maternity pay and job rights. There should be more done - thats true. But unfortunately the activism is all about the choice to destroy, not accomodate. It seems that choice of a positive future with a child is never presented.
We now face incredible levels of demographic decline, wholly caused by such easy 'dental visit' access to abortion, and the levels of childnessless poses very very severe problems for our economy and everyones future, so these kind of pro choice movies, like the choice to smoke, need to be assessed on what the full price of such choices mean.
