Are you going to see Orphan (the movie)?

BLW_KAM

You're a braver person than I. I have no stomach for horror movies. I still get nightmares from the Exorcist and I'm in my 40s!

It's hard to tell from the preview. Is Esther human or something else altogether?

ETA: Good idea and thank you. You'll save me from a sleepless night.

cantstopLinnyG

Thanks for this link. I doubt I will see it. I find movies or TV shows with an adoption theme to be too triggering, and they upset me. From what I can gather, this movie seems like it is a stereotypical "Older adoptees/foster kids" are going to rob you, kill you, or abuse your pets. I think these types of portrayals could prevent people from adopting older kids.

While it is common knowledge that adoptees can have severe emotional issues stemming from their relinquishments and subsequent adoptions, I won't pay money to see it sensationalized.

Mei-Ling

It honestly intrigues me, just to know what the "secret" will be.

The line where she says "It must be hard to love an adopted child as much as your own" will probably be a glaring red flag to new parents who won't want the movie to put "ideas" in their children's heads about what being adopted means, though...

Leah

I think it looks too much like what might happen if someone adopted me...I'm fourteen, and I think I'm just too old to be adopted, no one wants older kids. Not that I think I would be violent or anything, just no one wants me.

monkeykitty83

I found the preview very difficult to watch, because of the implication that the adopted child is evil by virtue of being adopted (and that it would be "easier" on her parents if she had been an infant.) The line about it being hard to love an adopted child "as much as your own" was painful to me, because I was imaging how children-- especially adopted children-- would react to it.

That said, I probably will see it, because people are sure to ask me what I thought of it, and I can't give an opinion without having actually watched it.

I like horror movies, so that aspect should be fine. It's just really upsetting to see an older adopted child labeled like that, even in fiction.

aloha.girl59

H.E.L.L. N.O.!

Annie

i would like too, but i have no one to see it with :(

Butterfly

My parents brought me up as telling me I was adopted, They told me i was special, i was someone, and they picked me! I am so thankful, and grateful I had them as parents! it's not true! being adopted is way better than anything you could ever experience in your life! Parents accept their children (blood related or not) for who they are!!! No matter what you do wrong, they will always forgive you!

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