Birth
Careful what you wish for.
A thirty-something New Yorker (Nicole Kidman) meets an adoring 10-year-old boy (Cameron Bright) who insists he's the reincarnation of her husband who died 10 years earlier. The irksome revelation begins to get under her skin, and she starts second-guessing the decisions she's made over the course of her life -- much to her mother's (Lauren Bacall), friend's (Anne Heche) and fiancé's (Danny Huston) chagrin.
Member Reviews
Someone understands ... - clovejoy
I really like this film.
The film held my attention captive from start to finish. I've read and learned a great deal about reincarnation, and couldn't find anything in the film that contradicts what I know about it. Very well researched.
And very well paced so as to maintain suspense right to the end. I honestly had no idea what would happen to the main characters. But the resolution made complete sense to me - if only because I understood the story as a story that involved souls on a journey rather than flesh-and-blood human beings in a drama.
I think that having this point of view is the key to appreciating the film - and why so many gave it a bad review. These reviewers either don't, can't, or won't understand this film from a more cosmic perspective.
Well done. I recommend it highly.Uniformly PATHETIC - Kissfan
OK other reviewer Giving this a 5 STAR. Where do you get off?? This film plot was weak. The Acting was strained at best.... The dialogue contrived and paced so ridiculously the Film became almost comical.
a RATING of 5 Star is deliberately misleading....
ZIPSTERS ..... STAY AWAY..... FAR AWAY!!!!poor attempt at a good idea - koth
I really had high hopes for this film, a good premise and good cast. I was let down. It reeks of having an inexperienced director. Surely he envies good directors like Polanski and Kubrick, but that is not enough.
What I found was a snail-paced film with a lot of questions unanswered. it was not exciting, not scary, not dramatic, not interesting, not funny, not entertaining and not something I'd recommend.
I don't even know what genre to place this in because it's a little of everything and a lot of nothing.
The subject matter was a little bit unsettling at times, when you deal with issues of a fully grown woman wanting intimacy with a prepubescent child.
The music was annoying at best, the acting mediocre and what annoyed me most was that it raised all of these ideas like:
-A boy suddenly realizes he's someone else. Okay, why, how?
-Boy's memory is only partial. Okay, why?
-Boy decides he's not really the guy: Okay, why, how did he know everything he did?
I could have gotten past all of its flaws if this film had've respected me enough to give me two things:
1. Good pace.
2. explanations to the endless things they were suggesting in the story.
Just a brief comment on the ending: Some call it ambiguous. I call it pointless. Here's a question to ask yourself -- at what point in the story did we stop learning new information?
Well in this case the tail end just went on and on with out summing anything up, or suggesting anything new. Therefore... pointless.
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Someone understands ... - clovejoy
I really like this film.
The film held my attention captive from start to finish. I've read and learned a great deal about reincarnation, and couldn't find anything in the film that contradicts what I know about it. Very well researched.
And ...Uniformly PATHETIC - Kissfan
OK other reviewer Giving this a 5 STAR. Where do you get off?? This film plot was weak. The Acting was strained at best.... The dialogue contrived and paced so ridiculously the Film became almost comical.
a RATING of 5 Star is deliberately misleading....
ZIPSTERS ...poor attempt at a good idea - koth
I really had high hopes for this film, a good premise and good cast. I was let down. It reeks of having an inexperienced director. Surely he envies good directors like Polanski and Kubrick, but that is not enough.
What I found was a snail-paced film ...