To like: Another
in a now-apparent trend of Hollywood films depicting fathers as devoted to
their children, and behaving with integrity, courage, and self-sacrifice, for
the good of their children, and often everybody else as well. Truly excellent message, and to be
celebrated.
(Things that make you go “Hmmm”: I can’t help wondering why it’s okay with
Hollywood, these days, to depict fathers behaving this way, but not mothers? Then again, in a culture where over a million
mothers a year decide to have someone kill their children in their own wombs
(the one place where, if any child ought to be able to feel safe in this broken
world, it’s there), maybe even Hollywood thinks that would strain credulity
past the breaking point. Fatherly
devotion? Sure, maybe, with a really
strong actor to pull it off. Motherly
devotion? Forgettaboutit.)
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