邁克.李難得的塑造了一個和睦，溫馨的家庭，沒有其他作品中令人坐立不安的家庭爭吵，沒有充滿隔閡與怨恨的家庭關系。維拉，這么一個善良，勤勞，溫和的老太太如同天使一般照顧著四口之家，幫助著需要幫助的年輕女孩。不變的是邁克.李依舊將鏡頭對準了社會底層家庭，一個和睦的底層家庭。維拉的故事很容易讓人想到同樣講述墮胎問題的夏布羅爾名作《女人韻事》。而不同的是《女人韻事》中的女主幫人墮胎是要收費的，而且她還容納妓女在自己家賣淫以獲取租金，這與本片中的維拉完全免費，完全出于善意，只是想幫助有困難的女孩的單純出發(fā)點截然不同。因此維拉這個角色更加理想化，更加讓人動容，但也缺少了更多的延伸性和解讀性。而兩部影片中都有一個女人表達了自己對于頻繁生孩子的厭惡。

影片前半部分相當溫馨，一家四口關系非常和睦，維拉在私下給女孩們墮胎時慈母般的臉龐給人一種極大的安全感。但她反復使用的墮胎工具最終也讓她付出了代價。接受她墮胎服務的女孩全都來自社會底層，因為收費低（費用是她朋友背著她收的）。而維拉在一個上流家庭里當清潔女傭時，上流家庭里的年輕女兒因為被強奸而懷孕，但她卻花了大價錢找到了醫(yī)療設施完善且干凈衛(wèi)生的醫(yī)生進行了墮胎。這樣的對比也無情的揭示出了階級的差異和生存環(huán)境的差別。維拉是善良的，但她無法獲得更專業(yè)衛(wèi)生的設備，她在幫助別人的同時也在散播風險，最終也因為一個墮胎女孩的感染而被人發(fā)現(xiàn)。影片中最溫馨的段落便是維拉女兒與男友訂婚的時刻，一家四口加上丈夫的弟弟與弟媳以及女婿，一共七人圍坐在餐桌上其樂融融，而至暗時刻也一同到來。維拉在團聚之時被警察帶走，一直被蒙在鼓里的家人得知維拉的事情后，兒子非常氣憤，他認為母親是不道德的，但父親卻理解母親的善。這也是影片呈現(xiàn)出來的道德困境。法律禁止墮胎，懷孕的女孩渴望墮胎，維拉無償幫助遭遇困難的女孩，這三股力量被綁在一起，很難單獨定義。維拉面對警察不知所措，只是不斷強調那些女孩需要幫助，僅此而已。最終她被判入獄，成為了罪人，成為了喪失道德的人，可她明明那么善良，那么樂于助人。維拉是那個時代的犧牲品，法律在不斷改進，現(xiàn)在與過去不同，結局也會不同。但每個時代又有專屬于這個時代的問題，比如某國關于扶不扶的道德困境........

The morality behind this movie is related to the problem of having unwanted babies. In fact, the United States has the highest rates of births to teenage mothers of all industrial nations, and the United Kingdom ranks the 2nd.

As far as I observe, some of the same people who complain about women delaying childbearing while they wallow in unbridled sexual consumerism, are also among the loudest critics of abortion. Some these concern stems from a disguised critique of feminism, which enables women to explore a healthy and safer sexuality. Efforts to stop unwanted motherhood have included, for example, increasing restrictions on access to birth control and even birth control information and restrictions on abortion, including parental consent and waiting periods.

Take, the statistics on rates of teenage motherhood for example. In the mid-1950s, 27 percent of all girls had sexual intercourse by age eighteen; in 1988, 56 percent of girls and 73 percent of boys had sexual intercourse by age eighteen. In 1991, the rate of adolescent childbearing-births to teen mothers per 1,000 girls — was 62.1, the highest rate since 1971, which was the year before abortion was legalized. This accounts for 9 percent of all births in the nation. Sixty-six percent of these young women were unmarried, compared with 1960, when only 15 percent were unmarried.

Such numbers can be "read" in several ways. For some, such numbers illustrate a calamitous increase in teen motherhood, attributable to wanton teenage sexuality and rampant immorality, an erosion of respect for the institution of marriage, and the growing crisis of fatherlessness. But for others, such numbers illustrate the erosion of access to adequate birth control information, the steady attacks on women's right to choose that restrict women's access to abortion and other means of birth control, and the increased freedom of young people from their parents' insistence on "shotgun weddings."

On these questions, the research is unanimous: Restricting access to information about birth control, access to birth control, and access to abortion has no bearing on rates of sexual activity. In fact, virtually all studies of the effect of sex education indicate a decrease in rates of sexual activity, greater sexual selectivity, and higher rates of safer sex practices. Young people will continue to become sexually active in their mid teens, whether or not they have access to birth control or information about it. In fact, restricting access is the surest way to encourage unwanted pregnancy. No wonder the highest rates of teen pregnancy occurred before abortion was legal.

The problem of “having unwanted babies” is also a way to blame women for men's irresponsibility. Politically, we are saying to young women that if they are going to dance (become sexually active), they will have to pay the piper (bear the consequences of unwanted pregnancies). But if, as we also know, it takes two to tango, perhaps the solution to the crisis of young motherhood lies in both increasing the abilities of these young women to become responsible (adequate health care, birth control information, and access to birth control) and in fostering a more responsible young manhood. In fact, casting the crisis as "having unwanted babies" masks another serious problem — girls' sexual victimization by men whose predatory sexual behavior goes unnoticed when the problem is cast in this way.

According to the U.S. Department of Justice, over half (54 percent) the women raped in 2000 (a typical year) were juveniles under eighteen years old, and 21.6 percent were younger than twelve. Another study found that 96 percent of those female rape victims under twelve knew their attackers. In one of five cases, their rapist was also their father. Although there is some evidence that suggests that females under eighteen are also the most likely to file false reports of rape with the police (though virtually none of these allegations ever went to trial, and all the reports were retracted in the interview stage), these false reports seem to be the result of fears of pregnancy and the hope that declaring they were raped would permit the females to get an abortion, because in many states, abortion is legal only in cases of rape or a threat to the mother's health.

With those argument mentioned above, I prefer the translation "地下觀音". And it could probably explain why people like Vera Drake was guilty but insisting never do things wrong.

故事發(fā)生在上世紀五十年代的英國，年屆中年的女主一家在百廢待興中勉力維系著雞零狗碎的生活。善良的女主多年來堅持無償幫助婦女墮胎，卻因此違反了當時的法律而鋃鐺入獄。影片的最后，女主在監(jiān)獄中遇到了另外兩位因相同原因而入獄的婦人，至此劇情戛然而止。

如果在獄中，幾位同病相憐的可憐人機緣巧合下受到馬克思主義的洗禮，從而加入英國共產黨的地下組織，成為無產階級婦女的先醒先行者，矢志與腐朽的資本主義法律體系相抗爭，并最終迎來了反墮胎法案的徹底廢除，那又將是另一個故事了……

首先看到豆瓣把本片貼上犯罪片，這樣的標簽和影片中的審判法官有什么區(qū)別？？

故事背景設于二戰(zhàn)后英國，戰(zhàn)后重建及社會秩序恢復的初期。然而道德宗教的束縛，社會偏見的綁架及法律的滯后給女性帶來的隱形壓迫無處不在。各種機構的構建參與決策都是由男人們把持，包括墮胎這種關乎女性自己身體的事。富裕家族的大小姐需要花光自己的全部積蓄，飽受精神科醫(yī)生的羞辱拷問才可以如愿以償。

善良的Vera身體力行的踐行著最女權的事，她本能的知道生育孩子是女性自己的選擇而非社會或家庭強制。片末她入獄后發(fā)現(xiàn)并不是她一個人在做這件事，而是群體性社會性的問題得不到解決才會使墮胎演變成地下模式。因循守舊禁錮的是更多父權社會下男人們的思想，不管他們有多位高權重。

很多評論討論邊緣人群，戰(zhàn)后失去家人的人不是邊緣人群，墮胎的女性不是邊緣人群，

要質疑的是各種非人性化法律法規(guī)的合理性。

psychiatrist的問詢令人如若針氈