Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Bulkington (A) on January 12, 2007 at 06:28:05

In Reply to: A very powerful film. In some ways a plea for us to stop the madness and realize how precious life is. posted by sjb on January 11, 2007 at 17:29:55:

Agreed. An explanation would not only have been besides the point but also have strained the suspension of disbelief all the more. Movies should take their worlds for granted. I'm sure that after 18 years of no chidren born people would have exhausted the why-did-it-happen talk to death. For whose benefit but ours would they wonder at or discuss possible explanations? When a movie holds my hand it's reminding me it's a movie, it breaks the spell and I recoil. What's important is that long-standing infertility is a fact of life in this world, one established in the nearly too-expositional opening, with the news report of the world's youngest person's death--a fact that could just as easily and probably more effectively have been established by reserving this revelation until the pregnant woman is revealed, Owen's shock coinciding with our realization, naming our nebulous sense heretofore perhaps of "something missing," that we've yet to see any children in this movie.

Not a perfect film, but some of its long sequences were bar-raising technical feats to marvel at and make the film worth the watch themselves.