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I found this movie entertaining. Despite the fact that I am pretty good at knowing what comes next, there were a number of surprises that kept me entertained. I didn't know what the numbers stood for, I didn't know what the extra numbers stood for, and I didn't know why the young girl was scratching inside the door. As the plot unfolded, all these things became clear in a way that made me say "Oh yeah, I didn't see that coming but it does make sense." That's what mystery is supposed to do. Many viewers have trouble with the ending. I didn't. I could see the relevance of the ending right at the beginning. For example, in the first scenes of the movie, the little girl hears "whispering" as she stares up at the sun. That will tie well with the drawing of Ezekiel (was it a sketch by William Blake? ) that she favors later in the film, as well as the mechanical structure in the drawing. It's pretty clear, from the outset, that these David Bowie clones that are always on the periphery are angels/aliens -- the authors blending the longstanding Judaeo-Christian mythology with the newer mythology of science fiction to suggest a model for the eternal perpetuation of the human race. That is probably why at the very end, the kids are running to the "tree of knowledge". The film relies upon the viewer's foreunderstanding of the literary themes of the West, as Northrop Frye would say. It seems a pity, therefore, for us to damn them by virtue of our own ignorance.
8/10
23.3.2009 -
com2013@ - age: 13-17
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