The most terrifying movie of last year

[ellen_datlow]

I just finished watching one of the scariest movies I've ever seen, Four Months, Three Weeks, Two Days. Simple premise: University student is pregnant in 1987 Communist Romania, where abortion is punishable by prison for everyone involved. The student asks her roommate to help her. The hero of this movie is the friend, whose life is as screwed up (possibly more) by the events than her pregnant roommate.

If you want a good look at what the overturning of Roe-Wade and going back to the days of illegal abortion could be like, this is it. Highly recommended.

Comments

[madwriter.livejournal.com]

The problem is I know a lot of people who wouldn't care how bad the conditions were, or the movie's portrayal of them. They see abortion as simple outright homocide, and would figure that the people involved deserved whatever they got. :(

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Most people I know do indeed care.