Wonder of wonders, a current hit movie makes a subtle anti-abortion statement.
How did this slip by the liberal Hollywood thought controllers?
The film is "Last Chance Harvey," a thoroughly delightful and uplifting story of an August-December romance between Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson.
The anti-abortion sentiment is expressed quite briefly, and don't expect Roger Ebert or Richard Roeper to even make note of it, but it is in there, plain as day.
In a scene where the protagonists are talking, heart to heart, getting to know each other better, Emma Thompson's mood changes abruptly.
"You just became sad," Hoffman says. "Why?"
"I was thinking about my days as a college student. I became pregnant. I did away with it. But sometimes I find myself wondering if he or she would have have been funny -- or clever -- or neurotic.
"Stupid of me to get this way, really."
Abortion remorse in a major Hollywood movie -- interesting.
Some speculate that the shift in public opinion polls showing a majority of Americans now opposed to our liberal abortion laws, may be significantly due to the remorse felt by many baby boomer women over abortions that they had during an earlier, less thoughtful, time in their lives.
I doubt the Hollywood moguls would have kept this off the cutting room floor unless they perceived that a profound sentiment, like abortion remorse, was, indeed, in the air.
Interesting.
One lighter thought-- this is the second Dustin Hoffman film I can recall where he suffers from job instability. The other was Kramer vs. Kramer.
He might have avoided the vagaries of the employment market if he had just taken the profound advice profferred to him in The Graduate.
" Your father tells me you're going to be out job hunting soon. I have just one word for you, young man:
Plastics!!"
How did this slip by the liberal Hollywood thought controllers?
The film is "Last Chance Harvey," a thoroughly delightful and uplifting story of an August-December romance between Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson.
The anti-abortion sentiment is expressed quite briefly, and don't expect Roger Ebert or Richard Roeper to even make note of it, but it is in there, plain as day.
In a scene where the protagonists are talking, heart to heart, getting to know each other better, Emma Thompson's mood changes abruptly.
"You just became sad," Hoffman says. "Why?"
"I was thinking about my days as a college student. I became pregnant. I did away with it. But sometimes I find myself wondering if he or she would have have been funny -- or clever -- or neurotic.
"Stupid of me to get this way, really."
Abortion remorse in a major Hollywood movie -- interesting.
Some speculate that the shift in public opinion polls showing a majority of Americans now opposed to our liberal abortion laws, may be significantly due to the remorse felt by many baby boomer women over abortions that they had during an earlier, less thoughtful, time in their lives.
I doubt the Hollywood moguls would have kept this off the cutting room floor unless they perceived that a profound sentiment, like abortion remorse, was, indeed, in the air.
Interesting.
One lighter thought-- this is the second Dustin Hoffman film I can recall where he suffers from job instability. The other was Kramer vs. Kramer.
He might have avoided the vagaries of the employment market if he had just taken the profound advice profferred to him in The Graduate.
" Your father tells me you're going to be out job hunting soon. I have just one word for you, young man:
Plastics!!"
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