Lake of Fire (2006)

Fantastic!

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

This is by far the best film on the subject and on dealing with hard things in general. Black and White and people from all views being allowed to voice their anger and love. From the start to finish the film has people from all over the place talk about their views on what this subject means to them. The thing i find amazing is the counter points from each point of view. The ability to allow people to show how wrong you are yet still remain strong in your view and at the same time see people change their views based on new evidence of something they may not have know about before. When Roe gets interviewed i found it an amazing thing to learn about. Please give it a view. Great conversations will come from it.

OK...I didn't make that up in my Title...that was a quote I heard Senator Arlen Specter make once...I think in one of the Supreme Court confirmation hearings. At first I thought it was an over-the-top comment to make, but the more I thought about it, I think he's right.I am a Male who is strongly Pro-Choice, and have always been extremely interested in the abortion debate. The fact that this was supposed to be a balanced look at abortion from both sides made me interested in renting the film.Truth be told, this film is slanted towards the Pro-Choice side. If someone who is Pro-Life felt this was well-balanced, I'd be shocked. As others have noted, most of the Pro-Life people are shown practically frothing at the mouth, while most of the Pro-Choice people are reasoned intellectuals. I'll bet there are some extremely rational, calm people on the Pro-Life side, but we never saw them. I'm sure there are also over-the-top Pro-Choice extremists, but we didn't see many of them either. For example, I would have liked to have seen those who are so Pro-Choice defend sex-selection abortions. We didn't see that. As a Pro-Choice movie, there is more balance in it than is typically shown, but to say this movie is right down the middle on abortion would be incorrect. Still, I really liked this movie, and the last 20 minutes or so where we watch the woman going through the whole abortion process was extremely powerful, particularly her reaction at the end.I'm not sure there's a very wide market for a film like this. If you're a big follower of the abortion issue, it's definitely worth seeing. If you don't find this a hot button issue, you'll probably think most of this is much ado about nothing.

I saw a few people on here proclaiming themselves as pro-life and panning the film for supposedly being biased against their view.First of all, purely on balance alone I'd say the film is equal to both sides. It's just that most of the stuff which makes you want to be pro-life comes at the beginning of the film while most of the content which makes you want to be pro-choice comes in the second half. It seems to me that they're just upset that their side didn't get the proverbial last word.Secondly, this film is not about balance anyway. It's about documenting the cultural debate in the film about abortion in America. Whether one or two dissenting reviewers of this film are or not, the fact is that most of the pro-life advocates are Christian religious fringe. Of course there are exceptions, and they document that in the movie. Although I don't think Kaye should have given an hour to the secular atheist pro-lifers, because frankly there aren't that many of them.The criticism also seem to come from people who don't even understand any points being made in the movie -- one reviewer claimed that Chomsky was comparing abortion to a woman washing her hands. That's not what he was doing at all. His example was made to demonstrate the relativity involved with the process of placing value on life.In any event, the film definitely is a roller coaster ride, and there are times where you might find yourself at odds with your own opinion. The movie being as balanced as it is, probably wont change a lot of minds, but I would think at the very least it would soften your position one way or another. If it doesn't, you're either just stubborn, or you weren't even trying to pay attention to the message of the film.

I am not a religious woman, but according to Lake of Fire, I should be. I am not deeply disturbed but according to Lake of Fire i should be. I am not a rabid catholic, a crazed religious nut committed to a biblical ideal of a woman's place in the world, but according to Lake of Fire I should be. This is because I am pro life and consider myself to be committed to a Consistent Life ethic, anti war, anti death penalty,committed to social justice, anti euthanasia and especially relevant to this film, anti abortion. Except for the rare interview, people who are anti abortion in his movie are to put it lightly, crazy religious nuts. Racist and sexist, certainly not rational. It has interesting moments but if you are looking for an unbiased view of the many people who are anti abortion, this is not the film for you.