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After Tiller (2013)

In 2009, pro-life activist Scott Roeder assassinated abortionist George Tiller, one of the only doctors in the United States who performed late-term abortions.

This documentary follows the four doctors who continue to perform these controversial procedures following his murder, providing insight into the mindset of people willing to do something almost everyone in the country finds reprehensible.

The movie wants us to believe LeRoy Carhart, Warren Hern, Susan Robinson, and Shelley Sella are the only people in the world who care about the plight of these solitary women who have nowhere else to turn.

However, the movie fails to reconcile the overwhelming public distaste for the procedures they perform with their status as crusaders. It avoids showing any actual procedures because this would make it impossible to view them as anything but butchers.

This propaganda attempts to humanize late-term abortionists and make these procedures more palatable to the public, disgustingly equating what most Americans view as a barbaric practice with a struggle for civil rights.

 

 

The Shooting (1966)

A nameless, mysterious young woman convinces bounty hunter Willet Gashade and his slow-witted friend, Coley, to help her get to Kingsely.  They’re trailed by Billy Spear (Jack Nicholson), a deadly stranger dressed in black.  After their horses die of exhaustion, and Coley is murdered, the group reaches their destination to find Gashade’s twin brother, Coin.

I was excited to see an obscure Jack Nicholson western, but the film was a disappointment.

Not concerned with advancing a narrative, this film desperately wants to evoke an atmosphere and feeling of what The West was like; it does a passable job, but there are better movies about gungslingers, nameless characters, and men in black.

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