Okay, I know I am going to sound like the spoilsport here, because everyone else seems to be okay with the "Alfonso Cuaron isn't about the story, he's about the emotion" thing, but ...
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I really had a hard time with the movie refusing to offer ANY explanation for why the human race just went and got itself infertile. Why could no one get pregnant? Massive sterilization experiment gone wrong? Someone dropped too many McDonalds Chicken McNuggets in the water supply? For no one in the entier world to be able tohave babies, I just needed something. I thought the movie was building toward it ... they kept hinting that there'd be some "big discovery" once they reached the Human Project ... but no. We knew no more at the end than we did at the beginning. Great -- Clive Owen got the new mom and her kid to the boat at the end. So what? Now what will they do? Does it make any difference? Why this one woman? Is it the start of a trend, or is she it? And why? It was a glaring omission, and the more I think about it the more it bugs me.
That said, the movie was well-crafted and I especially loved all the single-take shots that went on for several minutes at a time. Incredible bit of technical achievement there. But I wanted more answers. I'm literal that way. Sue me.
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Date: 2007-01-20 11:38 pm (UTC)SPOILER WARNING ...
I really had a hard time with the movie refusing to offer ANY explanation for why the human race just went and got itself infertile. Why could no one get pregnant? Massive sterilization experiment gone wrong? Someone dropped too many McDonalds Chicken McNuggets in the water supply? For no one in the entier world to be able tohave babies, I just needed something. I thought the movie was building toward it ... they kept hinting that there'd be some "big discovery" once they reached the Human Project ... but no. We knew no more at the end than we did at the beginning. Great -- Clive Owen got the new mom and her kid to the boat at the end. So what? Now what will they do? Does it make any difference? Why this one woman? Is it the start of a trend, or is she it? And why? It was a glaring omission, and the more I think about it the more it bugs me.
That said, the movie was well-crafted and I especially loved all the single-take shots that went on for several minutes at a time. Incredible bit of technical achievement there. But I wanted more answers. I'm literal that way. Sue me.