This article is published in issue 46 of Vanity Fair on newsstands until November 16, 2022
There is this film called Ninjababy where a messy and impulsive girl named Rakel who draws comics, drinks, smokes, says a lot of bad words and hangs out with all the men she thinks she finds herself six months pregnant, unable to have an abortion. But Rakel doesn’t want to be a mother and she tries to figure out who she can get the child to adopt, while she begins an irresistible imaginary dialogue with the cartoon about her fetus. It is an interesting and funny film, even moving. Above all, very contemporary, and not for nothing the director, Yngvild Sve Flikke, is Norwegian. When he introduced it to the Berlinale, he said he shot it because he wanted to raise questions about motherhood: “Is it something that comes naturally to everyone or is it different for each of us? And then, can we really say that something is intrinsically “masculine” or “feminine”? “. At the end of the month it will be released by Strade Blu Mondadori The children I don’t want by Simonetta Sciandivasci, a reflection by several voices, especially female but also male, on the theme of parenthood, between those who want their children and those who do not want them, who had them and who did not, for the first time without rhetoric. Where there are also those who say more or less sympathetically a truth that until recently seemed unspeakable: “Children break the balls.” Between Yngvild Sve Flikke and Sciandivasci, the writer Raffaella Silvestri, a graduate of Cambridge (a so unconformist who got married in June and left for a long journey alone in July): a few months ago she published on Review an article that starts from the freezing of her oocytes to analyze the situation of public spending in European countries reserved for childcare and their birth rates. His thesis: having more children and having them sooner – as do the women of countries that we rightly consider more advanced from the point of view of women’s emancipation, the Scandinavian ones for example – is not a value in itself, but an indicator of the greater freedom of women to include procreation in their life.
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