Film” What to Expect When You’re Expecting”
Viewed on the plane” a coercive fantasy about affluent beautiful self-absorbed couples who become parents because it’s time now, and parenthood is trending, the new thing to do. Parts of it, like paintings, are very good. No one decides to have an abortion or worries about money: the men worry about their lives closing down, the wives pressure their husbands into fatherhood. They are like parent versions of Cinderella, turning into loving parents when they see their newborn for the first time. For me, the truly moving and intriguing film narrative involves a luminous JLo and her fearful reluctant husband’s experience as they adopt an Ethiopian baby. They journey to a third world orphanage, and a procession of babies draped in white emerges from a hut, and each is presented to their new mother and father. It’s a truly moving and beautiful scene, fully believable. It opens the heart, implicating an unjust world and celebrating those who try to make things right.
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