What do you do in the days between learning your baby has died and delivering her? Troy and I tried to give ourselves a break from our new surreal reality by going to a movie. We couldn't decide what to see, and honestly it didn't really matter as long as it gave us a distraction for a bit. We debated Gone Girl or Where I Leave You. One is a drama and action film, the other a dramedy. We weren't sure about something comedy based. What could be funny to us in our situation? But when we arrived at the ticket counter on that Friday afternoon, the decision was not ours; Gone Girl was sold out. So we went with Where I Leave You. The basic plot is about grown children returning home after their father dies. That seemed safe enough for our aching hearts. And with Tina Fay and Jason Bateman it should be pretty good, right?
As it turns out, a subplot develops when Bateman's character catches his wife cheating at the beginning. He calls it quits and heads home for the funeral. Then out of the blue, his wife shows up to reveal to him that she's pregnant after a long battle with pregnancy loss and infertility. Strike one. Next, she calls to say she is bleeding and goes to the hospital expecting to be miscarrying again. But this is a movie, so of course her ultrasound shows that everything is actually fine. Strike two. Cut to a scene after the hospital where she pulls out her ultrasound image and announces it's a girl. It was at this point that I leaned over to Troy to ask if this was some kind of sick joke. How is this even a subplot for a movie about holding Shiva after a father's funeral?!
Later in October, I was trying to force myself out of the house a bit and made a movie date with my dad to see St.Vincent. This movie is about a grumpy older man and the bond he forms with a neighbor boy. Safe enough. But no. This grumpy old man is a patron at a strip club, and his female interest there discovers she's pregnant. On accident. Oh, and it's a girl. And this woman's pregnancy becomes a secondary plot, so I get to watch her belly grow until the movie culminates with the delivery. Seriously, universe?
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