what this seems to be brokering is a vision of coldhearted traitorous women who develop a limited attachment to their children through the biological-maternal function, and men with abandonment issues who get to be goofy and earnest despite the fact that their literal job is selling babies.

the sentimentality of this movie felt esp sinister because it seemed like the pathos was only supposed to register to the men characters and the women were somewhat sociopathic and at best followed…