Absolute Perversion
Here's the first paragraph of a lengthy whine from a man who's "scared" because there's not enough mainstream fictional films showing women aborting their children. He bemoans two recent films that show two women going full-term with their respective unintended pregnancies. How morally TWISTED can someone be to insist the blood lust be covered both off and on screen? For humanistic man, death is his solution for everything. These are the same people that get bent out of shape because a reconstructionist wrote that sodomites should receive the death penalty according to Biblical law. For them, only the innocent unborn are worthy of death.
"I have been monitoring pop culture for a long time, examining trends and singularities that both reflect and influence public thought. One particular topic has been on my mind for some time now: the release to two films last year, Knocked Up and Juno, which use unintended pregnancies, both of which are carried to term, as a central plot device. In the case of Knocked Up, the pregnancy is the result of a drunken one-night stand; in Juno, the pregnancy involves a teenager who decides to put her unborn child up for adoption. Both films received mostly positive reviews, and both did very well at the box office; Juno has even garnered several Academy Award nominations. The popularity of these films have been nagging me, but it hasn't been until the recent anniversary of Roe v. Wade that I felt qualified enough to write anything about what scares me about these two movies. I don't believe that these films represent a complete shift away from the pro-choice perspective when portraying unwanted pregnancies in movies; after all, the documentary Lake of Fire takes a look at the anti-abortion/pro-choice debate in a very balanced manner. Nevertheless, it's the complete absence of abortion in FICTIONAL movies that strikes me as bothersome, as if abortion is a subject only worthy of discussion in the less emotional, more sterilized genres of documentaries, news reporting, and non-fiction books."
"I have been monitoring pop culture for a long time, examining trends and singularities that both reflect and influence public thought. One particular topic has been on my mind for some time now: the release to two films last year, Knocked Up and Juno, which use unintended pregnancies, both of which are carried to term, as a central plot device. In the case of Knocked Up, the pregnancy is the result of a drunken one-night stand; in Juno, the pregnancy involves a teenager who decides to put her unborn child up for adoption. Both films received mostly positive reviews, and both did very well at the box office; Juno has even garnered several Academy Award nominations. The popularity of these films have been nagging me, but it hasn't been until the recent anniversary of Roe v. Wade that I felt qualified enough to write anything about what scares me about these two movies. I don't believe that these films represent a complete shift away from the pro-choice perspective when portraying unwanted pregnancies in movies; after all, the documentary Lake of Fire takes a look at the anti-abortion/pro-choice debate in a very balanced manner. Nevertheless, it's the complete absence of abortion in FICTIONAL movies that strikes me as bothersome, as if abortion is a subject only worthy of discussion in the less emotional, more sterilized genres of documentaries, news reporting, and non-fiction books."
