Saturday, September 22, 2007
GUILT
Today's film was
I got this to see Tilda Swinton and it was very worthwhile.
The story itself shows parallel lives.
A sixteen year old girl who is in denial about her pregnancy and then has a miscarriage is on trial for homicide because the baby is technically beyond the 20 week dividing line between legal 'life'.
The psychologist (Swinton) assigned to her case is pregnant and has had a miscarriage and has some other issues going on for her self.
The film shows parallels and concludes somewhat surprisingly without resolving the question of what the 'right thing' might be to do in such cases.
It is pretty well done. A bit hard to watch at times.
The teen age stuff comes across a lot more clearly than the adult stuff between Swinton and her husband and, well, a confusing third party.
I will give it a 3 out of Netflix5 for the film.
Swinton would get a 5. She is formidable.
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