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Even more than Godfather 2, what's really missed is Fast Times At Ridgemont High. The lead girl gets pregnant after an unpleasant one-night stand. She gets an abortion. She goes out for burgers. And that's it. It's not a big symbolic thing, it's not a particularly big thing at all---it's just one more unpleasant thing to do, but no more unpleasant than, say, attending high school. That kind of casualness, rather than any big pro-choice sloganizing, is what's really needed.
you mentioned keri russell in waitress, but failed to mention her pro-life stand against her anti-baby father in august rush...
of course posting an abortion snippet is going to open up some difficult discussion.
'that fuzzy bastard''s comment intrigued me, as it popped up quite often during 'knocked up''s theatre run. i don't entirely agree with it, because an abortion isn't always a casual thing. in my experience with planned parenthood, most mothers find having an abortion an extremely difficult thing. i think that the choice for jennifer jason leigh's character to approach her abortion in 'FTARH' with such blatant casualness comes from the same space as heigl's character in 'knocked up' - they help the pace of the plot.
neither film is supposed to be a blatant comment on the state of abortion in america (though i do concede that 'FTARH''s casualness does imply something a bit more than 'knocked up'). i think that's more in the area of 'vera drake', 'citizen ruth' or 'four months, three weeks, two days'.
to assert that having an abortion is 'no more unpleasant... than attending high school' perhaps speaks to you having a particularly pleasant high school experience, not so much to what it's like to have an abortion....
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Vern
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