AND BABY MAKES NONE: Movie review of Obvious Child by Howard Casner

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Warning: SPOILERS

obvious-child-Obvious Child is a movie about a woman who decides to have an abortion.

After seeing it, my first thought was, “And?”

I mean, as I was reading about it before it opened and then reading reviews, and even while watching the movie itself, I got the feeling that everybody involved and everyone who was praising this movie was doing so mainly because of its subject matter, and that they all thought the film was doing something edgy and controversial and daring.

Okay, maybe it is. But, I’m sorry, I simply didn’t see it. Read the rest of this entry »