Homer is anti-abortion, arguing that he himself could have been aborted since he was an unwanted child, yet that he is glad to be alive and would not want any other future-Homers / potential-Homers to end up in an incinerator rather than having a chance at life. I like the film for its openly pro-choice themes. He falls in love with the female half of the aforementioned couple while the male half is away at war (see? there has to be a love interest or there can’t be a story). He wants to get out and see the world, so he hitches a lift with a couple who come for an abortion, and becomes an apple picker. He becomes like a son to the doctor, and is trained in all the medicine that comes about in an orphanage where children live, and where women give birth, or are given illegal but relatively safe abortions.ĭr Large intends that Homer will carry on this work, but Homer does not wish to fall in with these plans. It tells the story of Homer Wells, an abandoned child left by his unwed mother at an orphanage run by one Dr Large. This is the film that Ariel and I watched yesterday.
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