Having just been released October 3rd, Tony Kaye's documentary, 'Lake of Fire', has been called a "groundbreaking" and "powerful" film on the issue of abortion, what the procedure actually entails, and the extreme positions that many adherers of the religious right seem to take to stop it.
According to reviews it is an intense depiction of a cultural war that is very real and starkly present in our culture.
Though Kaye devotes the film to covering both sides of issue and while I have not had the chance of seeing it myself ( not yet, but believe me, you'll know when I do), one can detect that he does have a slight leaning in his sympathies even from seeing the trailer.
I think it's worth a mention for those of you would like to check it out and discuss the film's implications.
Does it seem biased, despite the director's efforts not to be?
Does he perhaps rely on too much "shock value"?
And first and foremost, has it changed how you view the whole topic in general?
Having been released only recently the film has already created a cultural stir and has the potential to influence us to think long and hard about how we actually feel about the issue and where we stand.
Fair or biased, either way, it's worth a look.
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VERY powerful trailer!
18 years in the making.. thats how old a child aborted at the start of the filming would be now.
philosophically, anyone who is anti-abortion and pro-capital punishment is seriously screwed up(though not as crewed up as pro-choice / anti-capital punishment people). Life is to be protected, even from ourselves. The people who form the logic of "people who do abortions are killers and therefore must be killed" should be removed from society. It makes their usually reasonable arguments about the value of life seem crazy in the face of this contradiction.
I will try to get my hands on a copy of this film, because an ignorant argument is a failed argument.
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