Appologies for not replying sooner, but the internet access at my dad's was shoddy and I've been too tired this week to do the simplest of tasks.
TED started a thread for critical analysis of the film, so if you guys would like to check it out, a link is in the first post (not that it's hard to find while browsing through the forum, but I mean for future reference).
Through the whole movie they're trying to show how important the baby is - to the point where the girl says they'll probably take it away from her and give it to some posh woman. The thing is, the mother would have been just as important if not more important than the baby simply because if she had one, she could have another.
Yep, that is something I hadn't considered at the time, I just thought it was a way to show the extent to which the government had cracked down on refugees. A possible scenario: they keep both the baby and Kee under wraps for even a couple of years to make sure she can indeed have more children and this one was not just a fluke. If not, they really wouldn't have any use for her. I can understand the paranoia the Fishes must have had.
It was actually more dangerous for her to be out in public, because in desperate times like that, many men would've wanted her to have their baby and resorted to violence to try and get her pregnant themselves.
That's a really good and scary point. I would only add that no one knows she's pregnant, so she won't need to fight anyone off just yet. Once the jig is up, people are more transfixed with the baby anyway, so knocking her up again isn't first thing on their mind.
I loved how delicate everybody was with Kee. Even when she spits on Luke, you don't even see a supression of anger. They kidnap her by wheeling her chair away, even though it wouldn't go too fast on the smoothest of floors. In the car chase, they're extremely careful in only trying to shoot Theo when Kee was entirely clear of the shot. I appreciated that a group of rebels who used to set bombs to make their points are still compassionate enough to not lose sight of how important this girl is. Whether it's a mark of their character or the writers and filmmakers, I'm glad it was there. Too often, you see a film where someone's actions make no sense to the plan they're trying to carry out and it becomes hard to buy it as anything but a movie. In CoM, you never really doubt it.
I'll have to wait for it on DVD and it will drive me CRAZY.
It pretty much bombed at the box office, so you won't have to wait long. There's a smaller and smaller window between theatrical and home video release dates, anyway. Three or four months for the strugglers, 5 - 7 months for the money-makers.
Digital Bits reports that CoM may be out in early April, which sounds about right.
One more awesome spot was the blood on the camera like...someone said, brilliant touch.
I loved it as well, though someone on the IMDB mentioned that it took them out of the film because instead of being an invisible character within it, they were suddenly aware that they were watching a movie. It's a valid point. Mostly, I just saw it as what my own view would be if I was following Theo around. Someone in front of me gets shot and I'll be splattered with their blood.
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Um another thing... yeah i thought it was dumb Theo died, i mean he was running around the whole time and jumping off things and rowing and then suddenly "ow, *dies* " ?????? No I dont think so
It is supposed to happen in the blast that kills Luke, just before they go down those stairs. I wasn't able to catch it on my second viewing, but will try again on the third.
The only time I saw him get hurt that i can remember was when he rolled his ankle running away from Sid, before he bitch slapped him with a cinderblock of course
I think it was a car battery. Still cool, though I wasn't quite sure what was happening in that scene on my first viewing. I knew something was up with Syd obviously, but didn't realize it was bad enough to warrant actually killing him. More on that later.
And another thing...why did the military blow up their own troops? I mean they were sitting there storming the building then all of a sudden there goes the flyboys blowing shit up, why would they even send people in if they were gonna blow it up??
The only explanation I can come up with is that enough rebels had infiltrated the place that they didn't think it was worth saving. Remember, it wasn't just the Fishes there, but some kind of Muslim (they were chanting "Allahu Akbar") revolt was occuring, so perhaps the government figured Bexhill was lost. Syd was a guard and he knew the place was going to be bombed - maybe it was common knowledge amongst them and the orders were just to hold off the revolt as long as possible.
Slapped with a cinderblock?
I HAVE to see this movie now.
It's in the trailer at 2:09. But you should still see the movie.
I just wanted to reply before the time got too far away from me, but I will be back to share some more thoughts on my second viewing. It was definitely worthwhile.
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