(February 6, 2017 at 11:34 am)Exian Wrote: I gotcha. I'll have to see it, but from what you're saying it seems less pro-life, and more anti-free will (nah, you wouldn't word it that way "I take a stance against free-will", you know what I mean though). In which case, the choice is already made, and that goes for abortions when they happen as well.
No, it's pretty "pro-life", partly because of how the story is structured and how it emphasizes the - fairly irrelevant, or at least easily replaceable - daughter plot and the associated drama. Sure - it was there mainly to add human interest to the sci-fi movie, but it didn't necessarily need to be what it was.
Basically - it seems to me, that the creators want you to leave the cinema thinking that "life is precious" and that one must accept their lot in life, regardless of circumstances. It's not really heavy-handed and the message itself can be seen as positive, but I could have done without it. Instead of the child - the women could have had a kitten, or a wise-cracking robot, or something...
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
