Tydligt barn
En ganska ny romantisk komedi har faktiskt blivit lovad för behandlingen av detta ämne: Obvious Child från 2014 Starring Comedy Jenny Slate. Från en artikel skiffer :
In the new movie Obvious Child, twentysomething stand-up comic Donna gets pregnant after a drunken one-night stand, loses her job, attempts to schedule an abortion at her local Planned Parenthood clinic, and—cherry on top—discovers that the only available appointment is on Feb. 14. Turns out, it’s the perfect day: This is a romantic comedy where the girl gets an abortion and gets the guy. Along the way, she doesn’t even have a change of heart, contract a nasty infection, or succumb to a tragic death. That makes Obvious Child a run-of-the-mill story for a woman in America but an exceedingly rare tale for a woman on film.
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Obvious Child executes [a] remarkable feat. While other films that touch on abortion conspire to neutralize a woman's choice, or else punish her for it, Obvious Child never dwells on Donna’s decision. (This is no “Donna’s Dilemma.”) Instead, it plays with all the other choices inherent in the abortion decision—like how much to involve the man in the choice, how to tell your mom, and how to talk about it all publicly—and it does it all with humor and poignancy without getting glib.
Artikeln beskriver den kontrasterande, starka skildringen av ämnet i tidigare verk och dess orsaker, men innehåller också ett annat något positivt skildring: En plot från sitcomen Maude 1972:
Until Obvious Child, the best, most honest portrayal of abortion on screen aired in 1972 (after the procedure was legalized in New York, but before Roe took it nationwide), when Maude featured a two-episode abortion plotline titled “Maude’s Dilemma,” in which 47-year-old Maude becomes unexpectedly pregnant and spends a full television hour brashly debating every aspect of her choice with friends and family—including her age, her financial situation, her temperament, her husband’s feelings, and her daughter’s concerns. She ultimately chooses abortion, but not before the show wrings all possible feminist statements and dark laughs from the predicament.
Andra noterbara (och nyligen) exempel på denna tropes subversion
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Cristinas beslut att ha abort på Grey's Anatomy under säsong 8. Från LA Times :
Cristina is not a teenager, or a rape or an incest victim. She is not poor with eight kids and an abusive husband or suffering from mental illness. She does not have a rare disease that makes pregnancy a physical risk. Unlike Maude, she isn't an "older" woman with mid-life concerns. Cristina is married, healthy, financially stable and of prime childbearing years. She chose to have an abortion because she did not want to have a child. [...] [She] did not seem particularly agonized. She seemed, as she said she was, scared and sad, but she knew that she did not want to have a baby.
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Jane's mors beslut att få det på Jane Virgin under säsong 3. Från Vanity Fair :
Jane [the Virgin] handled the subject with a rare attitude: empathetic, but casual. Viewers don’t really watch Xiomara grapple and agonize over the decision, or even see her go to the clinic. In the time gap between the season premiere and episode two, Xiomara has an abortion off-screen. Instead of focusing on the decision itself, the episode focuses on how her family reacts—and ultimately overcomes their different perspectives.