The Last Movie You Watched

[Fake Messiah]

I watched "Bridget Jones's Baby" and you know I liked the movie because it wasn't stupid - like most movies about pregnancies are, but they rather decided to take a bit provocative way. For instance it reminded me what Alan Alda said in his autobiography, when he was a teen during the mass priest started attacking some movie playing then in theaters. According to Alda it was a light comedy adapted from a Broadway play. A group of Catholic watchdogs, called the Legion of Decency, had decided that seeing this movie would corrupt everyone, including adults, because it dealt with an unmarried woman who was pregnant. For proof how "disgraceful" the film was priest read a line from a movie that went: "'You’re pregnant?’ one character says. 'A drugstore on every corner in New York, and you’re pregnant?'"
After that whole congregation had to stand up and swear that they would never see this film or any film banned by the Legion of Decency, under pain of mortal sin. Everybody stood but Alan was brave enough and refused.

Or the story John Waters told many times how, when he was a kid, nuns in school were telling them that they will burn in Hell if they saw a movie called "Mom and Dad" (1945).He wandered what could be so bad about mom and dad to send you to hell and he found out that birth scene featured frontal female nudity.

So in that way "Bridget Jones's Baby" is a good movie: that they use taboo of woman's body and women so she's pregnant and doesn't know who's the father and guys kind of don't mind, they even cuss in churches and Anglicanism is portrayed as decoration to en everyday life in England. That they're on the nose with it is shown in the scene where she has a mom that is conservative and pushing for some small political liability, but she mocks her and in the next scene her mom is changed.