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3801 Lancaster: American Tragedy (2015)
Hard to Watch, but Necessary
I think this documentary does not do enough to show the counterpoint of abortion access. In other words, what other alternatives did these women have?
Think about it for a moment; you have been raped, perhaps a victim of incest, possibly even pregnant due to prostitution or sex trafficking. You're ashamed, so you hide your pregnancy for as long as you can. So by default, any abortion you get is probably going to be late term. Add to that, you're also very young and desperately poor. Your own mother doesn't believe you, because your uncle (her brother) "could have NEVER done something like that".
And to the people who say,"Well, there's always adoption". Do you know the odds on black and brown babies getting adopted? Are there sufficient services to assist these young mothers with rent, daycare, strollers, diapers, and all of the things that young mothers require just to have a viable shot at successfully raising a baby. I just wish there would have been more from that perspective.
The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (2003)
Best Documentary Ever!
The soundtrack and the visual graphics are stunning. I was quite a proponent of the old "we had no choice but to nuke Japan" lobby until I saw this movie. What we did to Japanese civilians with conventional bombs flown from the Marianas is just unspeakable.
This movie brings the terrible magnitude of General Curtis LeMay's war- crimes by comparing the bombed Japanese cities to similarly sized American ones as the bombs are falling. It's a very clever visual stunt and in my estimation, perhaps the best way to demonstrate to a modern audience just how bloodthirsty we were as a nation back in 1944.
This movie also demonstrates how slippery the slope to go to war is once a President is committed to take some action. The movie achieves that by really drilling down into the casus belli for Vietnam- the Gulf of Tonkin incident.