I'm Going to be an Adoptee for Halloween!

Someone asked me what I am going to be for Halloween.  I responded that I was going to be a 26-year-old, mother-of-two, college student who is on the brink of exhaustion.  It's easy!  I wear the costume every day.  Flipping through the channels though, I thought, "wow, gee, apparently being adopted would be good as a Halloween costume too."

On one network was the movie "Orphan."  I've heard people say that "Orphan" doesn't really contribute to the stigmatization of abandoned children because the child in the movie isn't really an orphan, it's a woman who looks like a child who's evil......I've never seen it. I boycotted it when it came out.  The title and the concept of a couple adopting a kid who went on to be some evil entity is stigmatizing.  I don't care that she technically wasn't an orphan the title of the movie is "Orphan" for the love of Pete.

Another movie playing last night was "Possessing Piper Rose."  The movie info said that it was about the spirit of an adopted child's "evil birth mother" following her adoptive parents, who had so badly wanted to adopt, and possessing the adoptive mother and ruining their dreams.  "Next!" I said to myself as I changed the channel.

Next, I began watching an MTV movie; the name escapes me at the moment.  It is about a high-tech society shielded from the rest of the world by a wall.  A virus killed off most of the population of the earth 400 years ago.  The few that were saved lived within the walls and received a vaccines for the virus.  An elite group of fighters chase conspiracy theories as people, descendants of the original survivors, vanish seemingly into thin air.  It turns out, 400 years ago, the vaccine rendered the population infertile.  The government had been cloning the "disappeared" citizens and implanting them as pregnancies in women who went in for obstetrics appointments.  The main character cries as she holds her sister who had been killed by the government, then cloned, then birthed as an infant.

"Nope."  I turned the TV off.

I think this is why I like zombie movies so much.  No one cares about the zombie's family background.  An adopted zombie isn't scarier than a biologically-raised zombie.  They're so creepy distinctions need not be made!  No one thinks being orphaned, abandoned, or adopted makes the zombie scarier.  No one says "oh, that person is a zombie because he/she was abandoned as a child!"  They all just stagger around and growl at everyone, every one of them equally creepy, end of story.  I'm sticking with the zombie movies.

What is your favorite, or least favorite, Halloween movie?

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