Long story short: Sophie and her husband Andrew can't have children so Sophie, on her own and without saying anything to her husband, decides to start banging Jihah, a Korean man who looks somewhat similar to her husband.
It's an interesting concept, and the film was rolling along -- right up to the point that Sophie announces she's pregnant. That's when things began to head south. And I REALLY started hating this film the minute pregnant Sophie goes back to have sex with her surrogate turkey baster. I was actually yelling at the screen: "Don't do it, Sophie. Don't do it". (Needless to say, she didn't listen, and went ahead and did it.)
That in and of itself might not have been so bad, if she at least had had the integrity to be honest with her husband. (You know...the person she was SUPPOSEDLY doing all this for in the first place.) But no...she lied. And cheated. And continued to lie and cheat throughout the rest of the film -- all the while telling her surrogate turkey baster how much she loved her husband. She even goes so far as to demand from her surrogate turkey baster that he tell her that: "This baby is his (her husband's). Please tell me this baby is his."
It's an interesting film. The acting was excellent, especially Vera Farmiga as Sophie. But the message is all wrong. Sophie is not any sort of a victim or a hero; she's just a plain old fashioned run of the mill ho. So when it comes to the end, which focuses exclusively on whether or not Sophie is now happy, the only emotional response I felt at that point was disdain.
It's an interesting concept, and the film was rolling along -- right up to the point that Sophie announces she's pregnant. That's when things began to head south. And I REALLY started hating this film the minute pregnant Sophie goes back to have sex with her surrogate turkey baster. I was actually yelling at the screen: "Don't do it, Sophie. Don't do it". (Needless to say, she didn't listen, and went ahead and did it.)
That in and of itself might not have been so bad, if she at least had had the integrity to be honest with her husband. (You know...the person she was SUPPOSEDLY doing all this for in the first place.) But no...she lied. And cheated. And continued to lie and cheat throughout the rest of the film -- all the while telling her surrogate turkey baster how much she loved her husband. She even goes so far as to demand from her surrogate turkey baster that he tell her that: "This baby is his (her husband's). Please tell me this baby is his."
It's an interesting film. The acting was excellent, especially Vera Farmiga as Sophie. But the message is all wrong. Sophie is not any sort of a victim or a hero; she's just a plain old fashioned run of the mill ho. So when it comes to the end, which focuses exclusively on whether or not Sophie is now happy, the only emotional response I felt at that point was disdain.