Thoughts on the movie "Orphan"
So the opening scene had me in tears by the end of it. It was just way to intense and real, even though I knew it was supposed to be a nightmare sequence. In it, the main character is going into labor when she begins bleeding profusely. The quiet cheerful manner of the nurse as she's stepping in her patient's blood is unsettling. Then she wakes up in a surgery room and the doctors are cheerfully telling her that her baby has died in her womb and they begin the process of extracting it while she is still awake. I have only read about what a D&C is but I think they were showing it with some amount of correct detail and that was pretty much what made me lose it. All during this, horrible screaming, blood, and even though they are removing a dead fetus everyone is acting like it's a normal delivery. Her husband has a camcorder on her screaming face while he tells her she's doing "so good." Then they hand her a wrapped up oozing red thing that kind of looks like a baby and say "congratulations, it's a girl!"
Cue sudden sitting up in bed, oh it was all a just nightmare, but she has a belly scar so she really did lose a baby, nervous and relieved chuckles from the audience. It took me several minutes to recover so I could watch the rest of the movie without my head buried in Mike's shoulder.
So aside from that, the family in this movie should be named THE TRAGICS. Mom lost a baby. Is a recovering alcoholic. One of their adorable children is deaf. Almost drowned in a pond on the property while mom was drunk. Mom's in therapy to deal with that plus losing the baby. Dad apparently cheated once in the past (and may also have a drinking problem, but he still stands in holier-than-thou judgement of mom). Their other child is kind of an asshole, but he's also a 9 year old boy in THE TRAGIC FAMILY so he could be forgiven for a failure to cope.
So, you know, here is this family that has already gone through SO MUCH before the cameras even start rolling, and now they are going to be subjected to the usual series of horrible events that befall families in horror movies. Also: a wonder they would be approved to adopt, even if it was a demon child (who by the way is not actually a child she's a grown up woman in a child's body omg no wonder she's an evil bitch!).
So you know, it was a pretty good film, but I wish I had known about the pregnancy-related horrors I was going to be subjected to right off the bat. I am kind of terrified of pregnancy in general but a nightmare depicting a stillbirth and D&C gone horrible wrong was just a little more than I could handle with period hormones coursing through my veins.
Cue sudden sitting up in bed, oh it was all a just nightmare, but she has a belly scar so she really did lose a baby, nervous and relieved chuckles from the audience. It took me several minutes to recover so I could watch the rest of the movie without my head buried in Mike's shoulder.
So aside from that, the family in this movie should be named THE TRAGICS. Mom lost a baby. Is a recovering alcoholic. One of their adorable children is deaf. Almost drowned in a pond on the property while mom was drunk. Mom's in therapy to deal with that plus losing the baby. Dad apparently cheated once in the past (and may also have a drinking problem, but he still stands in holier-than-thou judgement of mom). Their other child is kind of an asshole, but he's also a 9 year old boy in THE TRAGIC FAMILY so he could be forgiven for a failure to cope.
So, you know, here is this family that has already gone through SO MUCH before the cameras even start rolling, and now they are going to be subjected to the usual series of horrible events that befall families in horror movies. Also: a wonder they would be approved to adopt, even if it was a demon child (who by the way is not actually a child she's a grown up woman in a child's body omg no wonder she's an evil bitch!).
So you know, it was a pretty good film, but I wish I had known about the pregnancy-related horrors I was going to be subjected to right off the bat. I am kind of terrified of pregnancy in general but a nightmare depicting a stillbirth and D&C gone horrible wrong was just a little more than I could handle with period hormones coursing through my veins.