Blood Money – Abortion Documentary
August 28th
Right wing documentarians. Why the fuck do they exist? Funded by the church, blind-sighted by faith, and entirely oxymoronic. If the shitheap intelligent design effort EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed is anything to go by, Blood Money looks set to be dead awful… Mad pun.
I suggest if you want more than the Christian side of the story, to check out the excellent and harrowing Lake of Fire which covers the abortion issue in a much less impaired and more considered manner.
Funny, the trailer actually has bereaved female actors mixed up in the sensationalised snippets of crapshooting. Do yourself a favour; steer well clear.
This looks a lot better than “Lake of Fire”
As to why they exist- God made them, and has great plans for them.
Er, it looks like a subjective, highly-slanted Christian wank-fest. Have you even seen Lake of Fire? Its power is undeniable.
“Lake of Fire,” huh? I watched the trailer, and it’s obviously slanted the OTHER way. For instance, it shows a close up of an angry, guy saying, “Abortionists are murderers, and should be executed!” Executed? Really?
I’m one of those “right-wing wackos,” and I’m here to tell you that is NOT the position of 99.9% of the pro-life people! Pro-LIFE has no room for excecutioners!! “Lake of Fire” is crap…
Lake of Fire is a balanced and pragmatic view of the abortion issue. Note: “balanced” and “pragmatic”, meaning its not the extremist Christian blindfold view.
Having said that, I don’t deny that most pro-lifers and Christians in general are opposed to execution, however there are those who exist on the fringe and are part of your “movement”. Army of God is another documentary that deals with the Christian anti-abortion terrorists. I recommend checking it out if you can.
It is a sad commentary on our society when the life of the most helpless and innocent is so devalued for the convenience of another. And what I find interesting from the liberals is that they cannot make comments about opposing views without using foul language or making sexual innuendo.
The hate displayed is disturbing.
Keep your pants on girls.
@robinspal I’m glad swearing ruffles your feathers so much. I find it interesting that Christians like yourself reinforce gender inequality when feebly attempting ridicule. We don’t use the word ‘liberals’ where I am from either.
This looks disturbing and highly skewed. I don’t think Planned Parenthood employees would say those things unless they no longer worked for Planned Parenthood.
Lake of Fire was intense, but I heard the husband and wife that made that film were also Pro-Life, and I think their bias came through as well.
I saw an interesting doc on Sex Education at a film festival last week called “Daddy I Do”. It also talks about abortion, but it was surprisingly unbias, if not a little on the left side. I would suggest seeing it, but it probably won’t be on dvd for a while.
Interesting. I believe it is exactly bias and subjectivity that distinguishes documentary from journalism.
I’ll definitely keep an eye out for Daddy I Do, sounds interesting.
Blood money seemed to intentionally steer clear of embellishments and exaggeration. As it was stated earlier – Every documentary is going to have a bias. I attended a viewing of blood money in Albany, NY and sat in on a Q and A with one of the producers.
He mentioned that the “actors” were real women who had been effected by abortion on some sort of personal level with great affect. This film did not show a bunch of chopped-up kids and oozing trash bins. It gave facts. It gave facts that could stir anyone, despite their ideology, who have a going concern for humanity, individual rights, and social injustice.
A point could have been made in the film that would have made the film quite slanted. Why did the former abortion clinic owner cease her business in abortion? I did not ask the producer why they chose to leave out such a powerful and compelling account of what had happened in the life of this woman. I deduced that it was left out so that the film would stand to seem more objective. It is a shame… I think this is a modern day life that reflects the well-known story of John Newton. (1725-1807) I will respect their decision and will just recommend that you discover this woman’s story.
I viewed the “Lake of Fire” trailer. I will watch it. It intrigues me from an artistic perspective that the entire film is in back and white. I will say the trailer seems to focus heavily on the “wolves in sheep’s clothing” that seem to “represent” all those who claim to follow Jesus Christ.
You will not find me telling you that your opinions are “crap.” You will not even find me asking you, “how can you think that way!” I am an average guy with some average Biblical literacy. You will not find me on a street corner yelling at you while equipped with a bull horn, banners, or leaflet propaganda. I will play basketball with you after work, make (and keep) a coffee date with you, and get to know you. Here are two non-biblical concepts I firmly believe in. “Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.” St. Francis of Assisi(1181-1226) and “Rules without relationship leads to rebellion.” – Josh McDowall.
Rules can also be expectations or opinion. Let’s face it, you cannot “win me over” with what you expect me to believe without establishing a relationship with me. You only listen to the advice of FRIENDS that you admire and respect. Nine times out of ten it is never a stranger (or film) that will incite a change of opinion, character, habit, or thought pattern. It is almost always someone we respect.
In my opinion, the Bible trumps all that was said above. “But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect,” 1 Peter 3:15 I chose to focus on the words gentleness, respect, prepared, and asks. My life in Christ should be compelling to all. Christ in me should make such an obvious and desirable difference that others would ask me “to give the reason for the hope” that I have in times of happiness and travail.
The original blogger probably does not have much beef with “Blood Money.” I will not judge their language and will assume that they are probably passionate about film, others, and are more-than-likely reasonable on some level. It probably (and should) make them sick to their stomach that as people of peace and love; we Christians are often times deplorable, rude, judgmental, hypocritical, offensive, unrelenting, abrasive, and over zealous. Unfortunately, “the squeaky wheel gets the grease.” The Latin proverb Experientia Docet states, “Experience Teaches.” We have taught others to detest the cross by how we or the ones who represent us represent the cross.
How are we to expect (a rule) this blogger to have an open mind when we have been closed-off to give and show the grace, love, joy, peace, and comfort that only Christ can give.
Sorry for the tangent… I just have a personal struggle with some of the things I mentioned. Superficially, we are speaking about a film. There is more to it than that. I am sorry for the ridicule that was given to the initial blogger.
I would like to hear of more documentary titles from you. RB, you seem to know of many. Please be encouraged that there are those with a different train of thought that know and use better manners when speaking about tough and volatile issues. Have a great day.
Wow, noted. Thanks for showing some love.
Here’s what liberals fails to understand: you can’t just slam something as “biased” and think that’s a refutation of the thing you disagree with. You actually have to present an ARGUMENT (based on objective facts and evidence) and make a case for the legitimacy of your viewpoint, in this case the legitimacy of legalized abortion. If the film was as “biased” (read: inaccurate) as you claim it to be, its refutation would be much easier than casting it as a partisan strawman.
And, ff you were really open-minded you would be able to watch the movie without presupposition anyway.