User Reviews

I wanted to like this film it's an important topic, and it had a lot of good information, and a lot of the footage was very moving, but the way the story was told from the beginning credits it chopped in an out of narratives, sequences interspersed with film of women giving birth. Sometimes doctors were interviewed. Sometimes the women who had been violated. The stories were all very important. I just felt the way the film was put together detracted from putting it out there in a way that perhaps it could have been easier watch and follow and would reach more people. So I don't know if it was the screenplay that just made a patchwork quilt out of all the documentary footage or if it was the way it was edited either way it was kind of painful which was sort of the point they were making I guess, but in a very roundabout way, the positives being the benefits of natural birth, and the ways that education is changing things. This focused a lot on women in Brazil in the healthcare system there as a woman in the US I Experienced violation in my birth experience, back in 1979 and it affected the rest of my life... and my child's so this is an important topic... especially in our current politics 2023, where women are basically being given less options, in terms of whether to give birth, or not in the first place, the way the births take place is equally important to the mental health of mother and child!