Film Professor Discusses Hollywood Pro-Life Film Trend
Dr. Michael Gonzales, film professor at Biola University, was interviewed in the January 2008 World Magazine's cover story titled, "The Plots Thicken," about the emergence of pro-life themes on the silver screen.
In recent films, the heroine in the story is portrayed as the character who seeks an option outside of abortion for her unwanted pregnancy. This theme shows up in films such as 2007's Juno, about a high school teen who finds herself with an unwanted pregnancy and chooses to give it up for adoption when she finds out the baby already has fingernails.
Gonzalez discusses the change in Hollywood's agenda arguing that films with pro-life themes do not avoid reality.
"Despite attempts by Planned Parenthood and other Pro-Abortion groups to depict abortion as no more uncommon or morally fraught than having a tooth pulled, filmmakers realize that even after 35 years of legality, abortion has not shed its "ick" factor," said Gonzales, in his World Magazine interview.
Read the full article in World Magazine.