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    Mary McNamara: In Lady Jessica, 'Dune' created an all-time movie mom. Then 'Part Two' ruined her

    I knew I was going to have problems with "Dune: Part Two" when it opened with the image of a fetus. If female autonomy was not currently under attack from so many sides, my stomach might not have clenched quite so dramatically as those undeveloped eyes and barely formed limbs marked reentrance into the sprawling tale of Paul (last-of-his-house) Atreides, his pregnant mother and those around ...
    by Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times Mar 05, 2024 5 minutes
    From left to right: Zendaya and Rebecca Ferguson in “Dune: Part Two."

    I knew I was going to have problems with "Dune: Part Two" when it opened with the image of a fetus.

    If female autonomy was not currently under attack from so many sides, my stomach might not have clenched quite so dramatically as those undeveloped eyes and barely formed limbs marked reentrance into the sprawling tale of Paul (last-of-his-house) Atreides, his pregnant mother and those around them.

    But a lot has happened since the first part of Denis Villeneuve's magnificent adaptation of Frank Herbert's dystopian epic premiered in 2021. The overturning of Roe vs. Wade in 2022 had led to an increasing emphasis on "fetal rights," including the recent determination by the Alabama Supreme Court that frozen fertilized eggs are, legally, children.

    Which "Dune: Part Two" only emphasizes by the appearance of this fetus, which soon

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