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You are so off base here Jbrady.laylow:![]()
Thanks for the link to the review. I’m surprised that the Register published it.Steven, who clearly likes the movie, still seems to agree with the many critics who do not, that the movie is tailored to the pro-life faithful. It’s going to seem dishonest and unappealing to anyone outside of that group. Anyone looking for a nuanced review would accept that at the bare minimum.
As for the rest of your comment, you’ve got it almost right. It is tailored to the pro-life faithful who are political conservatives.
As someone who is moderately liberal, and thus outside of the target group, I did indeed find it to be dishonest and unappealing. As I said in a comment above, it had all the subtlety of a Chick tract and all the intellectual honesty of a Trump rally.
Rather than uniting the pro-life movement, the film makes those within the movement who are not political conservatives feel unwelcome. The negative comments to my post in this thread are proof of that.
The insinuation is that if you don’t vote republican, you can’t be a real pro-lifer. I think framing the abortion debate as a republican/democrat issue was a big mistake and prevents the movement from expanding beyond its current base, and of alienating many like me who persist in the cause in spite of politics.
What was dishonest about the film? Have you even mentioned anything yet?
How would you have rather the story been portrayed?
Do you feel attacked because I asked these questions?