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Stay (2013)
This made me think
So, women (or this woman) usually says that I like a movie where they stay together. Enough of us break up, who wants to see them break up? And this movie gives you that, but it doesn't exactly feel satisfying. I think that actually makes one think of their perspective on this issue and on relationships and abortion and having children.
So, you don't quite know what happened in the end. You see her go to the clinic, but she's looking back at the women with her mom- and she has this pause, and this look on her face that's admiring their relationship. You don't, as the viewer, know whether she enters the abortion room or not. You also see him deliver and hold a baby while also befriending a kid and thinking he needs to move back to Dublin FOR Abby. Something he DID NOT want to do before.
Did they compromise in the middle? Did they both concede to the other? Did one of them completely concede? Who knows? Maybe the writer left it to each of us to decide. But, even though they ended up together, the ending feels hollow to me when I should be happy that they stayed together.
I am totally pro-choice, but it felt like they were (if she had the abortion) cutting off parts of themselves that were both open to exploring - why didn't couldn't they just talk about it. It makes the relationship seem unworkable in the long run- and whatever the resolution at this point - it seemed they cut off an opportunity to grow closer together by making a joint decision or resolving their own stances - and deciding to split. Though they are together - is it really resolved?