What of the three stories do you like the most?
I like the Sissy Spacek story. Do you?
shareI love that one best too - because she has the most reasons to abort the baby (college, her age, early retirement, messing up her whole family's life), but doesn't.
Both Demi Moore and Anne Heche were single and could have went away and had quiet adoptions take place, but chose not to for their own selfish reasons.
Demi Moore's was that, "What would I tell people?". Anne Heche's attitude was that she made a mistake and shouldn't have to pay for it, especially when she could just go to the clinic anytime and have an abortion. Sissy Spacek's character didn't have that option available, but still chose not to have an abortion.
What was your reason for liking the Sissy Spacek story best?
Both Demi Moore and Anne Heche were single and could have went away and had quiet adoptions take place, but chose not to for their own selfish reasons.
Well, both were not exactly rich. I don't think they were in a position to just pack up and leave for a while.
And as for Demi's character being selfish, I politely disagree. First of all, having a love child was not nearly as acceptable in that time as it is now. And if she chose to keep the child, he/she would be ostracized just as much. After all, the town looked like the type where word got around fast. True, there is the whole giving up for adoption thing, but as mentioned, I don't think she had the money to just run off, give birth, and then go back to her life. Let's not forget how much trouble she had paying for the $400 abortion. I'm sure traveling would have costed much more. So, I don't think Demi was being selfish for thinking about the long run. After all, it wouldn't have been best for either of them.
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I'd say Demi Moore's character had a good reason also. She was living in 1952. Society could be brutal back then. She was a widow left all alone and all she had was her late husband's family. And after she told her sister-in-law, the sister-in-law turned on her. So she could probably only imagine how everyone else would react. She was not only going to be scorned by society but scorned by the only family she had. It had to be terrifying for her to realize by having this baby, she'd lose everyone she had.
Anne Heche's character, living in 1996, probably had the least excuse to have the abortion.
My favorite story was the first one starring Demi Moore. Because that's what it was really like back then. The storyline is just intense and you really feel Demi's character's loneliness and isolation. Her husband was really all she had, and now that he was dead, she just had his extended family.
The ending of that segment was intense also. They don't actually show what ultimately happens to Demi Moore's character, but think about it. She's bleeding to death from a bad abortion, calls an ambulance, but then out of FEAR, throws the phone across the room. And back then, emergency services could not trace calls. I think it can be pretty well assumed that she dies. Intense. Of course, they leave it up to the viewer to imagine what happens, but I imagine she dies. Because the fear of society finding out in that time was SO strong. Society was just mean.
I was still reeling from that story for a few minutes after the Sissy Spacek story started.
She didn't throw the phone across the room, she dropped it and definitely not out of fear, maybe you should go back and watch that scene again. it is clear that she is losing consciousness. She's too weak to say anything else but 'I need your help'. She fainted from the blood loss and likely died.
shareI can't believe people like you watch this movie and have no sympathy for Demi Moore. She obviously could NOT go away and quietly have the baby, that would mean she would have to leave for 7 months! She'd lose her job and everyone she knew would be able to put two and two together and understand she had gone off to have a baby, which was very shameful back then. I don't think you realize the gravity of her situation. She was a widow, and her only family was the family of her dead husband. We are shown that she has a very close relationship with her mother in law and her sister in law (at least until the latter finds out about her pregnancy). Her husband had died 6 months ago, and her husbands family would be hurt and appalled if they found out she had already gone and slept with someone. They would never forgive her. Back then it was taboo for women to have children out of wedlock, and I suppose it would be even worse to get knocked up less than 6 months after your husband died.
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