Interesteg What makes it different from others?

StunnaKrypto Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

Konterr Brilliant and touching

Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

bjarias (Spoilers !!) This is an annoying film.. as it insults the intelligence of its' audience for the sake of a storyline. As no intelligent individual who is committed to, and in love with their partner would enter into such a secretive, illicit, sexual affair in order to produce a child. They simply would do what tens of thousands of other couples do, and sign on to an in-vitro program. And from there this irrational story goes even further down the rabbit hole, when they abandon their spouse because the infidelity (and a previously undisclosed abortion) is uncovered, and the spouse (not surprisingly) refuses to enter into such a situation. The whole mess ends with her smiling, happily frolicking somewhere on a beach (maybe outside the country?) with her deported immigrant lover's kid.. and she is once again pregnant with another of his children. The ex left well behind, for no reason other than he shoots blanks..and she wanted a baby not from a tube, but the hot & steamy fashion. Usually like Farmiga a lot.. she was not bad here, but should have taken a pass on this contrived B- time waster.

s k Long story short: Sophie and her husband Andrew can't have children so Sophie, on her own and without saying anything to her husband, decides to start banging Jihah, a Korean man who looks somewhat similar to her husband. It's an interesting concept, and the film was rolling along -- right up to the point that Sophie announces she's pregnant. That's when things began to head south. And I REALLY started hating this film the minute pregnant Sophie goes back to have sex with her surrogate turkey baster. I was actually yelling at the screen: "Don't do it, Sophie. Don't do it". (Needless to say, she didn't listen, and went ahead and did it.) That in and of itself might not have been so bad, if she at least had had the integrity to be honest with her husband. (You know...the person she was SUPPOSEDLY doing all this for in the first place.) But no...she lied. And cheated. And continued to lie and cheat throughout the rest of the film -- all the while telling her surrogate turkey baster how much she loved her husband. She even goes so far as to demand from her surrogate turkey baster that he tell her that: "This baby is his (her husband's). Please tell me this baby is his."It's an interesting film. The acting was excellent, especially Vera Farmiga as Sophie. But the message is all wrong. Sophie is not any sort of a victim or a hero; she's just a plain old fashioned run of the mill ho. So when it comes to the end, which focuses exclusively on whether or not Sophie is now happy, the only emotional response I felt at that point was disdain.

jhailey A woman in love with her husband (he's suicidal) decides to have a baby to save his life. She's been to a fertility clinic - as has the lover she takes - so both know how artificial insemination works; but, instead of using the method thousands of people use every year around the world (the $5 turkey baster), they engage in coitus. We also are to believe that although the immigrant is in love with his fiancée, he doesn't suggest the obvious alternative to intercourse. Further, even though this is a business arrangement, the first time she's with her sperm donor, she takes off all her clothes, as if it's a seduction. Plus, her husband doesn't notice when $30,000 goes missing from their bank accounts. Does all this seem to demand more willing suspension of disbelief than even most Hollywood fare? Far fetched on all counts.

polsixe A woman, Sophie, makes a $$pact with an illegal alien man to try and get herself pregnant, she's married to an upper-middle class church-going professional who can't seem to get it done. Perfunctory sex for hire turns to something quite a bit more, not right away though (we're in on the action) and the three points of the human triangle come closer together. A slight jab is thrown at the Christianity as practiced by American Koreans, maybe that perfect house in the suburbs isn't all it seems. A good tale with a fine suspense on how it's all going to play out, and the ending leaves something for the viewer to ponder, about Sophie's choice.