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Entry: The "fertility film": a conservative trend in Hollywood? Link: http://www.takimag.com/sniperstower/article/the_fertility_film_a_conservative_trend_in_hollywood#26462 Post contents: Fecund market for "fertility movies"? I think it's more a matter of Hollywood chasing a moneymaking idea. If a baby movie makes money, there will be at least half-a-dozen baby movies in turnaround. Nobody can accuse modern-day Hollywood of anything like originality or risk-taking. What's most amusing about this is the Alissa Quart (love that name!) review - fussing about whether such movies are "good for women." Gotta be a lefty, this gal: She allows WAY too much influential power for movies and assumes a deeper, more valid intuition for herself. Sure, Alissa, you know what's best: Women of America are just mindless, boinkin' rodents, ready to squeeze out pups at the drop of some pants. Darn it, they need guidance from self-appointed visionaries and social critics like yourself. But in this dimension of reality, the one with electrons, air-breathing mammals and wraparound shades, most viewers consider movies disposable gimcracks, throwaway diversions that have zip lasting impact or meaning in their lives. ...As it should be. ('Course, I'm referring to EVERYDAY people, not deep-end thinkers.) This dispassion oddly is both antidote and fuel for our cultural imperialism, the global juggernaut that so entices and rots. If Coca-Cola, logo-printed T-shirts and Tom Cruise disappeared in the next minute, they would not be missed for long – if at all. American popular culture is so fun, so vibrant, so… IMMEDIATE especially because its underlying insignificance is universally recognized - dispatching any tension of importance. Average Joes and Joans are not superficial because they consider their own, active pastimes crucial - and constantly presented, unsolicited “sideshows” unimportant. They are stronger because of that knowledge, however unacknowledged it may remain. Sent at: 2008 09 07