The Surrogate (2020)
49KThe Surrogate: Directed by Jeremy Hersh. With Jasmine Batchelor, Chris Perfetti, Sullivan Jones, Brooke Bloom. A web designer for a nonprofit in Brooklyn, is ecstatic to be the surrogate and egg-donor for her best friend and his husband. Twelve weeks into the pregnancy, a prenatal test comes back with unexpected results that pose a moral dilemma.
“In a strange world of surrogacy, trading babies for a dime, doing the job for somebody that cant retrieve or that stands in a que for adoption etc etc.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003ein this case there are the issue of downs syndrome, and you may sense the vibes of an organization or conservative trade wind that every life do have the right to live. its the heartbreaking struggle to choose between abortion or not.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eits a slow film, it has got some racial dillemas to it also as the pregnancy is born by a single black woman with no great reserves, and the surtainty that a single white mother would easier be helped forward and supported by the health care.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eits been made 1000u0026#39;s of its kind, this one may angle a bit different, it will either make you glad or mad, depends on you view of an unborn life. the grumpy old man saw it and it was not a thrill, but drama it is, on low budget.”