Why bother with realism and decide to end the movie in such a stupid and improbable way?
Who could believe a Pastor, who thought she could never conceive but miraculously gets pregnant, will seriously contemplate abortion just because there is a 5% chance the baby might be disabled?
And who could believe that same Pastor would get drunk and ask an inmate (who is rumoured to have magical powers but who left her own baby die of thirst) for help before finally deciding to yell what she got convicted for in total violation of her work ethics?
And who could believe that the inmate, suddenly shunned from everyone else when learning what she got convicted for, would immediately kill herself while the Pastor would go on having an abortion ?
All on the same day of course... and I won't even mention the storyline where a guard mysteriously falls in love with that same inmate, despite knowing what she is in for, and breaks all the rules without even taking the slightest precautions to make sure no one finds out about them. Until of course people do find out and he decides to break up the relationship on the very same day that the stupid Pastor divulges the inmate's shameful secret which makes her lose all her « friends ».
I mean : melodramatic much?!
I really liked the idea of a female Pastor confronted with an extralucid inmate but the idea was ruined for me by a badly written script from a writer who just wanted to have the most depressing ending instead of keeping up with realism.
Don't bother watching. It has no redeemable quality.
Who could believe a Pastor, who thought she could never conceive but miraculously gets pregnant, will seriously contemplate abortion just because there is a 5% chance the baby might be disabled?
And who could believe that same Pastor would get drunk and ask an inmate (who is rumoured to have magical powers but who left her own baby die of thirst) for help before finally deciding to yell what she got convicted for in total violation of her work ethics?
And who could believe that the inmate, suddenly shunned from everyone else when learning what she got convicted for, would immediately kill herself while the Pastor would go on having an abortion ?
All on the same day of course... and I won't even mention the storyline where a guard mysteriously falls in love with that same inmate, despite knowing what she is in for, and breaks all the rules without even taking the slightest precautions to make sure no one finds out about them. Until of course people do find out and he decides to break up the relationship on the very same day that the stupid Pastor divulges the inmate's shameful secret which makes her lose all her « friends ».
I mean : melodramatic much?!
I really liked the idea of a female Pastor confronted with an extralucid inmate but the idea was ruined for me by a badly written script from a writer who just wanted to have the most depressing ending instead of keeping up with realism.
Don't bother watching. It has no redeemable quality.