Monday 23 May 2011

Baby Mama movie (spoiler mentioned)

Maybe because I am feeling very hormonal right now.....yes AF is on her way (TMI), but last night Babymama was aired and I sat and watched it as I did my ironing (wow I lead a fun life!!!!).  It is the story, the protagonist is a 37yr old business women (yeah yeah) who has everything but a baby and she has a T shaped womb.  Call me sceptical by why is she a single 37yr year old business woman???  The fact that her uterus is the wrong shape is a by-line for that fact that she can't find 'the one' and that it is her fault that she is too picky to find a man.  So, she hires an obviously younger woman to be a surrogate.  Being the controlling business woman, she tries to control every aspect of this natural process and turn it into a highly organised affair....please!!!  It turns out that the surrogate isn't pregnant with her child but is pregnant with her on/off partner's baby so a maternity suit ensues.  In the meantime business woman learns to 'relax' and finds a man and gets naturally pregnant after the first try.  Nobody has any form of treatment and all is happy!!!!!  How naive is the Hollywood version of pregnancy/childbirth and motherhood!!!!!  It insults surrogacy as a mucky transaction.  It shows that if a woman can't have children it is their fault and that 'Earth Mothers' are more happy.  Why not make a sensitive movie about how a young couple can't naturally have children and they exhaust every avenue and it shows accurately how society treats these people.  Maybe it would open people's eyes to the issue and that it could affect somebody who is close to them and that they need support. 

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