Posted on 01/08/2008 1:27:00 PM PST by rhema
Bella is a beautiful movie.
Statements like this always bring tears...
Praise be to God that more people are repenting from such a horrible, evil practice.
Hillary loosing today, the feminazi’s are on the run.
All this shows is that people can intellectually admit something, yet still go through with the opposite because even though they know it’s wrong, they still do the wrong thing.
People may have some understanding it’s wrong and that most people know it’s a life, yet they still write it so that either one has an abortion, or still remains pro abortion.
And as far as Hollywood goes, I don’t believe them for a second that anythign has changed. I totally believe they are simply trying to do novel writing for the total sake of ratings - any way they can get them. Because most prime time shows suck big time now and are losing viewers. That’s the only thing that really affects the big 4’s bottom line for advertising revenue.
What they realize is: psychologically audiences cannot see a character as fun and likable if she has an abortion.
They may see her as an object of pity and not scorn, they may agree with her "choice" - but she can only be believable as a tragic figure.
99% of abortions occur because the mother just does not feel like dealing with the social and financial complications the child will cause.
That's fundamentally repulsive, but Americans mask that disgusting reality by reassuring themselves that most abortions are because of rape or incest or situations that would plunge mother and child into Third World poverty.
So in order to have a movie script in which a major character has an abortion for reasons that do not immediately make the audience disgusted with her, she has to be a victim of rape or incest or someone whose financial situation is irremediably horrible.
And audiences do not go to Hollywood movies to be depressed. They want to walk out amused or inspired or warmed.
Hildy just last week tried to stick to Obama by sending out a mailer that he wasn’t sufficiently pro-abortion (by her standards).
It got a big yawn or worse.
Abortion will never again be the big political bonanza it was to the Witch’s generation. It may not go away, either, but the days of simply being able to raise the specter of abortion “rights” to get some fire in a campaign are over.
There's still Obama.
Great post. Thank you.
The final scene of the second “House” episode mentioned above shows Emma, the photographer, at home, holding her new infant and looking at the framed, informal photos she took during her hospital stay of the doctors who saved her and her child. House is not among them. He is shunned. I liked that.
“Noelle” is a beauty. The young actors portraying the two main characters wrote, directed and produced it. They’re also married and their five children have parts in the film.
Whenever someone says they: “support a woman’s right to chose”, it’s a safe bet that they don’t mean that a woman should have the right to chose any of these things:
the school her children attend;
to educate her children at home instead of at school;
the type of car she drives — unless it’s really tiny;
to say “Merry Christmas” at Christmas time;
her health-care provider — unless it’s a state monopoly;
or, even, the type of light bulbs she buys for home.
We need more groups like this. Christians need to invade the world of entertainment, the media, and academia, not abandon them to the Left.
They don’t kill the baby for the same reason the Indians never shoot the horses, you wouldn’t have a movie.
This article also repeats the idiotic mistake of grouping a bunch of movies that who’s production had nothing to do with each other’s under a generic ‘Hollywood’ ideological monolith who’s existence is dubious to begin with.
That’s a good point. The movie industry is still very clubby, but it is no longer the domain of a handful of huge studios with kept stables of writers and stars.
Calling some of these indie films representative of something called ‘Hollywood’ is like saying the Zapruder film (which is listed on IMDB) is a sign of Hollywood’s support for the JFK assasination.
I have 9 brothers and sisters and love them all deeply.
I also had a little sister die of natural causes at 1 week old.
I grieve the loss of my sister, Monica that I never had the opportunity to love as my sister.
I miss the jokes, the escapades, the phone calls, sharing the memories, the growing up together.
I can’t imagine the loss of knowing that my Mom killed a sister or brother of mine.
In another South Korean film, My Sassy Girl, the lead character is a troubled young women who is going out of her way to humiliate her boyfriend. One of the things she does is tell his professor and a class full of students that she's pregnant with his baby and he's taking her for an abortion. Actually, she isn't pregnant and they've never even had sex, but the idea conveyed is that the worst possible thing she could say about him to make him look awful is to implicate him in an abortion.
Even back in 1958, when the Japanese film Tokyo Twilight depicted a rare on-screen abortion storyline, the abortion was shown to be humiliating and damaging. A girl abandoned by her boyfriend panics and gets an abortion. The abortionist is a sleazy looking, unkempt woman who treats her like a hooker. As she's waiting for the abortion, she hears some passing schoolchildren singing and tears up. Later, when she sees her sister's baby daughter, she breaks down completely, and ends up throwing herself in front of a train.
Abortions are just sleazy and there's no way to sanitize them.
Think of the stories your little sister will have for you (and the introductions she will be able to make) when you finally see her agian.
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