Every time I mention my wife and I have had five homebirths, I get the strangest silence. It takes the opposing human brain a few seconds to hear, catalogue, and respond with: “Oh…that’s cool.”
Now, the modern brain only has so many “boxes.” When the word “homebirth” is uttered, it is hesitantly put in the box with “horse-drawn carriages,” “bonnets,” and “fetch me some water from the well, Amos, and boil it. I’m fixin’ to take me a warsh.” Believe me, that box is a scary place to find yourself.
I am then usually met with questions like: “Are you Amish?” and “What about the pain?” and simply “Why?” and occasionally “Would you like a refill?” when I’m interrupted by a waitress.
Netflix has since dropped him from its For Your Consideration page for the upcoming awards season.
The film starts with its focus on this young couple and their journey to parenthood. As it progresses, it grows to become about Martha s larger family. Martha s mother buys a car for her and Sean and the salesperson is Martha s brother-in-law, Chris (Benny Safdie). The lawyer for their case against the mid-wife is Martha s cousin, Suzanne (Sarah Snook), who also begins an affair with Sean. This is all treated very flippantly in the script. This family intercepted every aspect of this couple s life. We never learn anything about Sean s family. Did they know about the baby? Were they excited?
The Globe and Mail Published January 13, 2021
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Vanessa Kirby is that actress. The one you’ve been wondering about, who plays Princess Margaret in the first two seasons of
The Crown and the White Widow in the
In
Pieces of a Woman, a home birth turns harrowing for Martha and Sean (Kirby and Shia LaBeouf) and their midwife, Eva (Molly Parker). Screenwriter Kata Weber and director Kornel Mundruczo plunge us into the action with a seemingly unbroken 20-minute take that rubs the actors and viewers raw. Kirby loved it. She’s compelled by the tough stuff, the moments when the light in a character’s eyes darkens.
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