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Friday, September 25, 2020

Thoughts on The Surrogate

I really liked The Surrogate, an indie film I watched in June through the Museum of the Moving Image’s virtual cinema, directed by Jeremy Hersh. It’s about a young woman (a vibrant Jasmine Batchelor) who is a surrogate carrying a baby for her gay male friends, and they deal with moral conflicts when they find out the fetus will be born with Down’s Syndrome. She’s all into having the baby and researching what it’s like to raise a kid with DS, while her friends, the ones who would be the parents, are hesitant about having a child with special needs. I thought it was a really interesting movie, and liked how it dealt with complex emotions about raising kids with special needs, especially when finding out the child will have disabilities while they are in the womb. It felt like a more unique story for a movie, and it didn’t have a clean happy ending, which I appreciated.

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