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Actors: Nicole Kidman, Anne Heche, Lauren Bacall, Danny Huston, Cameron Bright
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Birth |
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The opening scene: You are watching, from behind, a man jogging in the winter all bundled up in sweats, with his hood pulled up around his face. He is jogging. And jogging. It appears to twilight because it is so dismal looking. Finally after many hills and turns, he appears to be jogging towards you, through a large shadow and under an overpass. He stops awkwardly, stumbles, grabs his chest and falls.
Ten years later the movie turns to an elegant engagement party at Anna's (Nicole Kidman) mother's (Lauren Bacall) townhouse. As guests arrive we see a young boy sitting on a bench in the lobby, not really paying attention to them. Clara arrives (Anne Heche) visibly distraught. She keep mumbling about the present missing its bow. She leaves the building and ends up in a park setting where she is stumbling about and finally ends up burying the gift beneath a pile of decaying leaves.
Several days later, Sean (Cameron Bright) shows up at Anna's mother's birthday party. All he keeps telling people is that he must speak to Anna. She is visibly intrigued. Once he pulls her away from the group, he informs her that he is Sean, her dead husband. She is taken aback and makes Sean leave.
Through out the course of the movie there are peculiar scenes, but the two most on my mind are the two that gave it its R rating. The first is between Anna (Nicole Kidman) and her fiance Joseph (Danny Huston). It is supposed to be the two of them making love. Well, if Anna looked any more enthused, she would have been dead herself. It was gross. All you could see was Joseph's "humping" Anna, full butt shot on him (yuck) and half a breast on her with her legs sort of flopping out on the sides of his butt (another yuck). The other scene involves Anna and 10 year old Sean. Anna is in the tub (all pasty white) and Sean disrobes and joins her. Anna never asks him what he is doing until he is already in the tub! Not only was this scene unnecessary, but made no sense. Both scenes could definitely have been deleted and left on the director's floor.
I don't want to write any more about the plot, because there really isn't much more. Clara finds that Sean has the "present" that she buried containing love letters for the "dead" Sean to her and calls his bluff. Is he really Sean or not, you are left to decide.
--Andi Puntoriero, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Birth |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Time/era of movie:
- present (2000-2010)
Romance/Love/Hugging
Yes
Lover is...
- an imposter
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- business executive
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- red
Hair type
- (woman) short/butch/lez
Body type
- (woman) skinny
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard wavey
Body type
- (man) average build
Unclothed?
- buttocks and chest
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Italian
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- a kid
Profession/status:
- student
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 80%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) very short/crewcut
Body type
- (man) average
unclothed?
- chest
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Setting
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Movie makes you feel...
- frustrated
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- actual description of sex
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude male butt
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
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