A new documentary on the abortion issue is in limited release in the US. The director says that he doesn't have a position on the abortion issue so he contends that it's not propaganda. It will be interesting to see if the it's truly neutral.
"Lake of Fire," currently on limited release in the United States, unwinds over more than two and a half hours of interviews with some of the leading figures from the pro-life and pro-choice camps.(via)
But it is the graphic and disturbing depiction of termination procedures, filmed like the rest of the movie in black and white, that marks the film out.
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One scene depicts a doctor sifting through a surgical tray after performing a late-term abortion, where the grisly residue of an arm, a foot and part of a face can be clearly made out.
"It's about as shocking as any motion picture can ever get. It's illegal to film someone being killed," said Kaye.
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The concept was to make a film about the debate over the issue of abortion but to make it a non-propagandist way and to create a kind of war of words."
He said he wanted "to create this kind of a weave where we really explore the issue without taking any sides."
"It's very easy for me to do that because... I don't really have a point of view. I'm not a politician or a commentator," he said.
The film features leading thinkers including linguist and leftist intellectual Noam Chomsky, who dismisses the notion of certainty in the debate.
"You're not going to get the answers from holy texts. You're not going to the answers from biologists," he says. "These are matters of human concern."
"There are conflicting values and taken in isolation each of these values is quite legitimate," he adds. "Choice is legitimate, preserving life is legitimate."
Wow! I can't believe that Chomsky admitted that it was a life. I wonder if he would agree that the taking of life is wrong. Isn't murder a human concern?
I'm tempted to see the movie but I'm not sure I would be able to make it through the part where they kill a baby. I not drawn to watching snuff films. They thought of it repulses me.
