AUGUST RUSH: Pro-life movie?!?

[nordskoven]

AUGUST RUSH is the name of a character in the Oliver Twist-type movie of the same name. August Rush is a young boy who, as a baby, is given up for adoption without his unwed mother’s knowledge. He is autistic (not spelled out in the movie) and a savant. The movie suggests his mother, who was told the baby died, has a form of autism, Asperger’s Syndrome, having counted the exact number of days since his birth, Rain Man-type number crunching. Daddy is a talented Irish musician.

This film is a pro-life movie told in reverse. The child was inconvenient for the unwed mother’s family and shoulda coulda woulda been aborted in a perfect, convenient amoral world. He has a kind of disability that makes him loving yet dissociated from the “normal” world of cynical mistrust. We are brought to love the child then realize he was an abortion candidate.

August Rush is united with his parents in the end by their unexpressed love for each other as expressed in music. Love conquers all.

 

[Neolithic]

AUGUST RUSH is the name of a character in the Oliver Twist-type movie of the same name. August Rush is a young boy who, as a baby, is given up for adoption without his unwed mother’s knowledge. He is autistic (not spelled out in the movie) and a savant. The movie suggests his mother, who was told the baby died, has a form of autism, Asperger’s Syndrome, having counted the exact number of days since his birth, Rain Man-type number crunching. Daddy is a talented Irish musician.

This film is a pro-life movie told in reverse. The child was inconvenient for the unwed mother’s family and shoulda coulda woulda been aborted in a perfect, convenient amoral world. He has a kind of disability that makes him loving yet dissociated from the “normal” world of cynical mistrust. We are brought to love the child then realize he was an abortion candidate.

August Rush is united with his parents in the end by their unexpressed love for each other as expressed in music. Love conquers all.

August Rush is one of my favorite movies, and it indeed seems pro-life. The only thing I take issue with is the idea that the boy was Autistic. If that’s what the writer was going for, he didn’t do a very good job. The kid was brilliant aside from music if you watch it closely. I don’t think he was Autistic at all.

But, hey, what did you think of that Irish actor? He’s got a pretty darn good voice doesn’t he? He should have been a singer.

Remember this part? youtube.com/watch?v=ud0zNRVIIsM

 

[leonie]

The only thing that bothered me about the movie was that the parents had a one night stand and then spent years “missing” each other.

I thought it was a bad message for the young and romantic. I didn’t want my dd (14) to get this idea. On the other hand, you can see the bad results of their impulsive unchastity. They all have years of suffering afterward. But, the connection is not necessarily highlighted in the movie. It is something you can bring out in discussion.