Sunday, May 29, 2011

Sigh at a movie

Blake and I just finished watching a movie tonight that if it had ended a few seconds earlier, I would have said it was a great movie.

There is a ton more to the storyline than this, but here are the important parts for my sigh. The couple in the movie decided to adopt, so at the very end of the movie they do the little 6 months later thing, and you see them arriving home with a baby from China (or other Asian country) and there is a sweet little scene in the apartment.

All this made me very happy, and really identify with this couple and be so proud of Hollywood to have this ending... and then you find out that she is also pregnant!

Why?? Why did they have to do that? Wasn't it enough that they were making a family and becoming parents without also magically fixing all their infertility problems (according to the movie, they also did a bunch of treatments too, all unsuccessfully)?

I know this happens occasionally, but it is much rarer than the common myth that as soon as you adopt you get pregnant, and I am irritated that the movie decided to perpetuate it anyways, but that is not my biggest irritation.

It was that by making her pregnant, it made it like it wasn't a good enough ending that they adopted, and that really bothers me! Some people build their entire families through adoption, and it would have been great to give a nod to them instead of continuing something that is largely myth. So... sigh to this movie.

p.s. hopefully by leaving out the movie name and most of the details of it, it won't spoil the movie for you until the end, and then you know anyways, but if you have already seen the movie, you know what I am talking about.

2 comments:

  1. I saw that movie and had the same reaction to the ending.

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  2. Hi Lisa! I think about you often :) I know you don't post over at iVillage much anymore, but wanted to know that I check in with you here occasionally. Praying that your wait for a referral will be a quick one! Take Care -Heather Davis (teamdavis)

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