Posted on 08/11/2022 9:21:01 AM PDT by Morgana
Lena Dunham swerves directly into the culture wars, whether she means to or not.
Critics X-rayed her HBO series, Girls, during its six-year run over every sexual taboo and revelation. She used a sexual metaphor to tell voters to pull the lever for President Barack Obama in 2012.
And her recent clothing line for larger women got hammered in the press for not being woke enough.
Dunham’s newest project, Sharp Stick, is heading in the same direction. Except this time it’s clear the film’s co-star and creator is cheering it on.
The film follows a 20-something woman named Sarah Jo (Kristine Froseth) exploring her sexuality for the first time. Critics describe the naive character as someone with a virtual check list of sexual adventures she’s eager to finish.
Dunham plays a real estate agent whose husband (Jon Bernthal) is one of Sarah Jo’s sexual conquests. The Girls co-creator is no stranger to sexually adventurous characters, but it’s a new wrinkle in Sharp Stick that may cause a stir.
Sarah Jo’s mother, played by screen veteran Jennifer Jason Leigh, throws her daughter an “abortion baby shower” at one point in the movie. It’s the next step up from the pro-choice movement’s “shout your abortion” battle cry.
Liberal film critic Roger Moore noted the moment will definitely get people’s attention, and that’s no accident.
Yeah, Ms. Millennial knows how to get attention and throw a little shock in with her branded version of sexual adventurism.
Dunham describes the creative process behind the abortion baby shower sequence to TheFilmStage.com:
That was one of those ideas where I was like: can she do that and we still believe that she’s doing it and believes that it’s the work of a loving mother? It was one of those things where, at each stage, I kept going “is this going to disappear?” And then it was like the idea had held just enough for me to be excited. Then, when I wrote the scene, it held just enough for me to be excited. When they acted the scene and brought things to it I couldn’t have even imagined. Then it suddenly became a building block of the movie.
The film is earning decidedly tepid reviews, at best. The A.V. Club called it one of the year’s worst films, while its Rotten Tomatoes score hovers around 47 percent after both its Sundance Film Festival debut earlier this year and July 29 release date in select cities.
The movie opens across America Aug. 5.
The film’s festival release came before the recent Roe v. Wade Supreme Court reversal. That shift could give Sharp Stick a boost in progressive hamlets across the nation.
Or, Sharp Stick could be Dunham’s latest commercial disappointment. Her HBO series Camping lasted but one season, as did “Generation.”
Which level of Hell do you get when you participate in or sponsor an abortion baby shower?
But you had better not stare at them, either.
And they are ‘all’ expressing their ‘individualism’.
Beluga whales are cute.
Has she become a trans-pig?
What kind of gifts do you bring to an “abortion shower”?
Headstones?
Lobotomy?
Come quick! There’s been a explosion at the thrift store!
Body bags?
That’s offensive to Beluga whales!
“She needs to find God.”
No one needs to find God. He’s not the one who is lost.
You need to, too.
Me and God are old friends.
God does not approve of your degenerate and perverse notion of mass murdering (Christian) Russian citizens. So, yes, you need to find Him, too, and just as much as Lenny Dunham.
Slaughtering invaders en masse is fine by me. Let the Russians stop their war and depart Ukraine and I’ll stop cheering when they die.
It’s OK. You’re not Christian. I understand. I’ll pray for you. I’ll also pray the Ukrainians destroy the treasonous globalists that have destroyed their state, starting with Zelensky.
“You’re not Christian.”
Neither is the sick little man who ordered his troops to invade Ukraine. And if you are one of his followers then neither are you.
Nonsense. He’s quite Christian. The Sodomite-worshipping degenerate puppet ruler of Ukraine is doing all he can to make his country anti-Christian to suit the globalist agenda of Soros & Co.
You’re zero for zero. Pro-Soros, pro-Sodomite, pro-Globalist, pro-Warmonger. You’re posting on a Conservative Christian website, why ? And when are you leaving to fight in Ukraine ?
You’re the self-anointed field marshal. When are you going over to Russia to volunteer to help Putin rape, pillage, and plunder Ukraine?
With all of his dead generals I’m sure Putin could use the help.
You keep failing to comprehend that I and almost everyone else here, aside from a handful of you trolls, want no part of that war. If you’re so hot to trot to murder and kill, go on over to Ukraine and do it. Show us how it’s done, Mr. Tidy Bowl Man. You’d think we’d have learned from the last two civil wars overseas not to stick our noses where it doesn’t belong. How many thousands of Americans died for absolutely nothing ?
But, there’s no stopping you and your comrades, except for giving up the keyboard. Go on for the glory of the Globalists ! Maybe Soros will give you some of his filthy lucre he stole from his Jewish victims as reward. Don’t be a coward, go do it. Just don’t ask us normals to participate in your madness.
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