I support the pro-choice or pro-privacy, as it should be called, argument with abortion and this movie handled it terribly. The woman doesn't tell the guy that she is pregnant til the day before the abortion. She tells him in her act in front of a audience and embarrasses him. THIS MOVIE SUCKS!!
shareThe movie sucked because of the way she chose to tell Max she was pregnant and getting an abortion? She didn't embarrass him, she just shocked him and he needed some time to collect his thoughts. It all worked out in the end though, so what's the problem?
shareBut the decision of abortion should be done between the mother and the father if he is responsible enough to care about her. Max is responsible and he deserved to be told privately not to have it blabbed like she wanted to advertise it on a billboard. That destroys the privacy argument when you talk about it on a stage in front of a audience.
shareI loved the way that happened. It was completely cringe-worthy. I was thinking 'Don't! Don't!' - I may have even said it out loud. And that's a good movie that makes you do that. It was a bad decision for her to do it that way. It shows how stressed out she was over how to tell him. It just all came out. I think it has something to do with the medium of standup comedy too - and how for many comedians they become quite used to baring their soul and even their dirty laundry on stage. So perhaps she felt compelled to do that. I liked it a lot. It was very emotional. It was, no doubt about it, the wrong thing to do but it fit for the character.
shareThe movie "The Cider House Rules" had a doctor who gave abortions to women who came to him. In the 1930s maybe. He was seen as a flawed but sympathetic character. I didn't like the film and that was one, but not all of my reasons.
shareShe tells him in her act in front of a audience and embarrasses him.
I just think it is wrong to embarrass someone for humor. Howard Stern did the same thing when he talked about intimate and private stuff that happened in his marriage on the radio. There has to be a line to not cross for entertainment. I hate it when entertainers cross it.
shareI don't think it was her intention to embarrass him. I don't even think she knew he was going to be there (again, correct me if I'm wrong).
She was just using her life to get some laughs and make a living. That's what comedians do. I got the feeling that when she saw him there her options were to bomb horribly by doing an entirely different act (that she had not practiced) or do the set she had planned. She chose B.
She tried to tell him, and he didn't call her back or even acknowledge her. Plus, she had no idea he was going to be at the show. She was doing her standup, and he happened to walk in and catch it. Not her fault. She tried to tell him in a very personal, decent way, and he pretty much ignored it.
She did nothing wrong here.
This is gonna *beep* do for him what "Jade" did for David Caruso.