Hey Film Industry: "Abortion" is Not a Bad Word, Mmmkay?

Emily Farris — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:24:00 GMT

When we saw Knocked-Up last summer, we laughed a lot, sure, but we also got angry at times, because we kept thinking: this story does not end this way. Wouldn't the successful girl abort the stoner's baby after a sloppy one-night stand? But while Judd Apatow was beating around the bush, Romanian writer-director Christian Mungiu went there in 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. We're guessing you know what that series represents...

The year is 1987, when Romania is still under the nightmarish police-state rule of Ceausescu and abortions are highly illegal. Nonetheless, college student Otillia (played by Anamaria Marinca) agrees to accompany her pregnant roommate, Gabita, to a man who will terminate her pregnancy. It’s a bleakly comic — but mostly bleak — journey that takes Otillia across a Bucharest ravaged by Communism, leading her to an utterly devastating decision about how far she’ll go to help a friend. Whatever your opinions about abortion, by the end of 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, you’ll be grateful you live in a country where we can make such frothy movies (like Knocked Up and Juno) about such a serious subject.

[Via Very Short List]

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