Citizen Ruth Movie Review

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In the movie Citizen Ruth, a woman named Ruth Stoops is an inhalant abusing, poverty-stricken woman who constantly gets arrested. The judge charges her with criminal endangerment of her fetus. That's when she finds out that she's pregnant with her fifth child, and the state has already stripped her visitation rights to see her other children. The judge also tells her, however, that if she gets an abortion they'll be more lenient with her and she won't have to stay in jail as long. This angers members of a pro-life group called the "Baby Savers." She meets the head operator of "Baby Savers" Gail Stoney in jail when she's having a nervous breakdown on the floor. Gail and her husband post bail and Ruth goes to live with them and their teenage daughter, Cheryl and younger son Matthew. There, she inconveniences their family, but claims to want to fix her life up for her sake and for her baby's. Soon they're taking her to pro-life protests at a woman's clinic, but she starts huffing again, and they kick her out because they find her at an alley behind the clinic huffing and beating their son. They send her to live with another supposedly pro-lifer named Diane, but she turns out to be an undercover pro-choice

This is an interesting and at times funny satire of the opposing stands on the issue of abortion. While never taking sides and equally poking fun at both the pro-choice and pro-life factions, the abortion issue remains unresolved, much like that of the society in which we live. Some of the characterizations are a little too overboard, but for the most part they work very well. Ruth is a very frustrating character, but her slow take on the views and her wanting to make her own choices even though she isn't the most educated person adds much to her character. While some will obviously be offended by a film that finds humor in a serious issue such as abortion, I thought it was well done and should make people better understand the never-ending issue of pro-choice vs. pro-life without force-feeding a biased opinion of pop culture to the viewer. I am a believer in pro-choice because I feel it is a women's right to chose what she does to her body. "Citizen Ruth" validated that for me. It showed Ruth to be the epitome of a bad citizen, who would utterly ruin her child's life mentally, physically, and emotionally. Ruth is also a kind of person you wouldn't want to give yet another choice/ chance to because she is so ungrateful to the overly nice and dedicated family who took her in without making her feel guilty, and she never really quite learns her lesson and takes responsibility for her actions. The good citizen pro-life people that are so passionate about their beliefs in an almost cradling way, made

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