not great


this movie isnt worth the recognition it got.



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I agree, what a horrible movie. Any movie with the line "The priest lovingly knocked her up every year" isn't worth viewing once, let alone more then once.

-Gary-

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well, seems not everybody gets what the movie is about. And no, this was not 'Spiderman 4' or 'Die Hard 4.1', sorry mates. Wrong theatre.

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What? That line was funny!

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"The priest lovingly knocked her up every year" ??? I think you either got that line wrong or there was an incorrect translation....maybe you SHOULD wiew it twice...gets ur brain working

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Yeah, I shuddered at that line thinking of what that means for maternal & infant mortality. Then, it showed that woman dying with her 13th child but still treated it as a joke. The same woman earlier said something about how the only thing that mattered in life was not love or the welfare of your children but just reproducing.

I don't consider this garbage feminist.

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A viewpoint unsupported by arguments isn't worth responding to. So I'm doing something wrong here.

Michel Couzijn

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It's very good, though I have mixed feelings about quirkiness. Not sure what kind of plot feminist doctrine demands, something 100% lesbian I suppose, but carrying children is rather feminine. Yeah, she died a little early, but at least she was disappointed when her life ended.

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The movie is feminist and liberal, and it has a point of view. The movie celebrates life. I like the movie.

I will concede that I don't think it's one of the top Oscar winners for Best Foreign Language Film, but I'm glad I saw it.

Some of the other postings seem to ignore that 99 percent of the movies we see are told from a male point of view. It's sad but not surprising that a movie told from a female point of view should be the butt of derogatory comments.

See the movie and make up your own mind.

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