A few nights ago, I watched the movie called, Unplanned, I don't know what I was expecting when I started to watch it, when it started out, it gave the impression that it was simply about a woman who decided to work at Planned Parenthood. But throughout the movie, even before she got the job, it honestly didn't make sense, of why she wanted to work at that company, when before, when she went there for help, for a chemical induced abortion, she had such a traumatic experience, that out of all places, Planned Parenthood would be the last place she would want to work at.
Anyways, the movie continues, and she gets hired at the company, with her starting out as a volunteer, escorting women into the facility, then she get's prompted to start working in the clinic. When she first get's hired, she's given the impression that the company is all about free choice, and women's rights, but throughout the movie, it's reviled that the company is pushing women to have abortions because that's how they make most of their money. I honestly don't know if it's true, I'm just saying what the movie shown.
What completely turned me off from the movie, was the abortion scene, to me it was completely unnecessary, it was not needed at all in my opinion, to me they just put it in the movie for shock value, that's it. After the woman is called in to help with an abortion procedure, and it shows how traumatized she is, she quits working there shortly afterwards. That's fine and all, but then it shows her literally protesting on the other side of the gate, against the company, now working with the anti abortion company 40 days for life. Like I understand that she's grateful that the company 40's days for life helped her and listened to her problems, but what I don't understand is why she couldn't just get a different job and move on with her life.
In my opinion, the movie, went from being about a company that was supposed to represent women having free choice, to basically coercing them into getting abortions. I understand that the movie was probably heavily Christian based, since it had some Christian elements dropped here and there throughout the movie. But for me, when it got the point where the main character was protesting against abortions, when before, at the beginning of the movie, she wanted to have choice over her own body, that's where I completely lost interest in the movie. I didn't finish watching it, I watched over an hour of it, and finally I had to turn it off.
Hopefully anything I said, didn't offend anyone, I was just stating my opinion about the movie. Thank you for taking the time, to read this.
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