are so painful to watch.
Like when she sticks the knitting thing into her body...oh, I wanted to be sick
This film was really good, and it kind of helped pushed the fact that there aren't always right answers, just right choices. The performances are great, and I gave it a 8/10 here on IMDB.
Behind Every Curtain Someone is watching
...waiting...
That was one graphic scene.And I mean that gingerly.
The 50's were actually a barbaric time when it came to
widows facing unplanned pregnancies from someone other
than their own husbands,because high expectations of
morality were very high and society was very conservative.
And it makes me glad I grew up in the 90's.
That makes me so glad too.
I had only read illegal abortion accounts. But seeing a dramatization scared me--and I had grown up with Nightmare on Elm Street..etc. I had problems sleeping the first time I saw that segment.
It is horrifying to realize that there are people who sincerely consider that scenario as a 'pro life' era. I can't think of a more misleading label!
That scene reminds me that I am grateful for abortion to be legalized with professional doctors doing it.
shareThat scene made me light-headed and I almost passed out. A couple of years later, a friend of mine wanted to watch the movie when it was on t.v. and I told her I would leave the room during that scene. When I came back, she was like, oh my god! that was awful.
"You can't tell me nothin' if you ain't had an 8-track." -Sinbad
I'll admit, I grew nauseous watching that scene but the last story showed that it doesn't have to be the way Demi Moore's character had it.
shareyeah i didn't even stay to watch it. i had to leave because i started feeling incredibly sick in my stomach. there's no way i would be able to sit through that scene even the thought of it makes me feel ill.
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."
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We had to watch that movie in my high school Bioethics class and we all heard abotu how gruesome a few scenes are, especially that one. And after we saw it, this one girl fainted and another girl had to leave the room, then I fainted. First time I passed out in my entire life. It was a whole chain reaction. That was not a good day. Almost every administrator was in that room after the incidents.
shareIt taught something very important. Women have always sought abortions, and done desperate things. Be glad they are legal, and fight to go back to those days.
shareSometimes people must see something to truly understand what is being talked about. The scene was more sad for me. Very sad.
shareIt is very hard to watch but i think thats the idea, like that the viewer feels that desperation along with her to see just how desperate she was!
Do guys like "the thing"?
They like it better than no thing.
I just recently watched this in my women's studies class and when this scene came on this lady next to me took off her glasses and just put her head down, I lowered my head too, I just couldn't watch. The scene that made me sick was when the "doctor" performs the abortion and every girl in the class that I could see had their head down,and then after a couple of girls left the classroom. I'm pro-choice and made me appreciate that abortion is performed in a sterile environment, like someone told me a long long time ago, abortion is like insurance, we might never use it, but we know it will always be there, just in case.
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That must've been a horrifying time for poor Claire,trying to
abort the baby herself.Has anyone succeeded in doing this with a
knitting needle,I mean?
Knitting needles were the tool of choice, next to coat hangers. My mom used a needle while pregnat with me. She dislodged the placenta and I was born low birth weight. I don't hate her for it. I wish it had been legal then so she wouldn't have suffered. She had a nervous breakdown afterwards.
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