Director: Sean Garrity
Genre: Drama
This film was very difficult to watch. It was an excellent story about controversial topics of rape and abortion. It was the story of a young, newlywed couple, trying desperately to get pregnant. On a trip into the woods for a romantic getaway, they are disturbed by a group of men who turn their camping trip into their worst nightmare. Zooey is raped in front of Adam, but to make it worse, she becomes pregnant, and they don’t know who the father is. They can’t do a paternity test because it could lead to a miscarriage, and the only safe time to do one is after 13 weeks, which is too late for an abortion.
Their marriage falls apart because Zooey decides that she wants to keep the child, asks Adam to forget about the paternity and raise it as theirs because she truly believes it is. The internal struggle that Adam is having is never made clear until the very end of the film, when he has taken the child with him to the camping site where the rape occurred, is ready to somehow kill the child, and breaks down in Zooey’s arms because he feels like the rape was his fault and he should have been able to stop it. The actor did a fantastic job, and he and the director were there for a question and answer period after the film ended. It was then that I found out that the dialogue was improvised, and the director told the actors that they could not let the line “It’s all my fault, I should have been able to stop them” come out until the very end. It had a huge impact because you know that this was weighing down on Adam throughout the entire movie, but he never said it. It was an especially surreal story to watch.
