Google Baby

At the start of the documentary Google Baby we see an Indian doctor deliver a baby by C-section and, while sewing up the woman’s belly, talking on a cell phone (video). That is the world Zippi Brand Frank takes us into. A gay Israeli couple has a child by a surrogate mother in the United States. But the high cost (over $100,000) gives one of the men an idea for a business venture: combining Israeli sperm and American eggs, and using surrogate mothers in India. It’s a fascinating, thought-provoking, and disturbing prospect in this brave new world: like some dystopian future, women in poor countries are having babies for people in rich countries. Or, as the Indian doctor who runs the clinic would say: this is about one mother helping another. This mother wants a baby; this mother wants a house for her family. They trade baby for money and everybody is happy. Good? Bad? I don't know. A very interesting film. (7/10)