An expecting mother finds out that her baby will be severely disabled and starts to search for ways to accomodate to the new situation. It's not among my themes, so I wasn't actually planning to see how it goes but since it was the movie's last day on ArteKino, I played it.
At the beginning, I wasn't even paying attention and then - bam! She started to question the imperative to sacrifice both hers and her baby's life as she imagines it in the name of social duty and Christian values. And she actually had the balls to act on it! Because it's not the easy way out, as some might think.
Now I see why 24 Weeks was given the ArteKino audience award. It was prerhaps a way for a lot of people to express feelings they are not allowed to have. It turns out that an enormous percentage of the future mothers confronted with such news make the same choice. But where are they? In hiding. Like all the rest who ever did or at least wanted to do the unacceptable.
We like this movie.
