I loved this movie. I see many people complaining about it being a movie where religion defeats science, but I didn't see it this way. It is a sci fi movie. Fi stands for fiction as we know it. It is not supposed to be a documentary on evolution and biology but include a story about something that is now what we can see being proved by science.
Second, the ending is open for interpretation. And I liked it. The test fails. The girl is afraid of the elevator, but so what? Kids are afraid of many things that can be a coincidence. I actually loved the scene of the test being done. I am an atheist. And when the movie started and I got the main theme I thought that hopefully it is not about religion defeating science. Yet there I was watching the girl after several correct answers giving incorrect ones and feeling a weird disappointment. At the end when Karen asks Ian how he felt he says "kind of foolish", this is basically what I did too. And then there was still a part of me hoping that the girl will say something that will see us a Sofi being part of her. And she did it with the elevator. And I think it Sofi, yet as I said keeps our interpretation open. For all we know she is just claustrophobic.
Another thing is that I think it is supposed to simply say that there is so much more out there that we can't explain yet. That can be scientific and proved by data but that we don't even imagine. And I am not talking about God. Science just keeps developing and one day people may be studying things that we can't imagine now. And it will be a scientist like Ian, who is willing to go and test something to make sure that what he doesn't believes in is incorrect instead of dismissing it.
To me the movie wasn't predictable. I didn't see the trailer before watching it and just read a one sentence description. So luckily for me the main idea and what will happen weren't open from the start which made the movie more enjoyable.
The acting was perfect. I liked how incredibly natural these people felt to me. The main character also being so complex. He isn't dull as people referred to him. He is normal. But being normal includes so many parts. He is the guy who believes in data but just for the hell of it follows the number 11. His attitude towards the female characters of the movie and changing of it. We can see him starting to respect Karen after dismissing her as a first year student he needs to get rid of. Somehow one feels the two are right for each other yet he ends up with Sofi at first, who is so different. Yet we get the passion that can make us miss the huge differences between us and the person we are with which gets to his mind in that fatal night in the elevator, as he then describes it to Karen. His character is important to the drama romance part of the movie and represent the humanity so well.
The little girl Kashish playing Salomina was also good and it is her first part! I love how vivid her face was when she was answering the questions in the hotel room.
Well, the movie was sure impressive. I just don't get why Ian didn't contact Dr. Simmons to talk about what she is researching. But this could be because he wanted to try first his own thing. And this way also getting a closure that he said he was missing after Sofi's death.
I will look out for more work of the director and the actors as I was impressed.
Second, the ending is open for interpretation. And I liked it. The test fails. The girl is afraid of the elevator, but so what? Kids are afraid of many things that can be a coincidence. I actually loved the scene of the test being done. I am an atheist. And when the movie started and I got the main theme I thought that hopefully it is not about religion defeating science. Yet there I was watching the girl after several correct answers giving incorrect ones and feeling a weird disappointment. At the end when Karen asks Ian how he felt he says "kind of foolish", this is basically what I did too. And then there was still a part of me hoping that the girl will say something that will see us a Sofi being part of her. And she did it with the elevator. And I think it Sofi, yet as I said keeps our interpretation open. For all we know she is just claustrophobic.
Another thing is that I think it is supposed to simply say that there is so much more out there that we can't explain yet. That can be scientific and proved by data but that we don't even imagine. And I am not talking about God. Science just keeps developing and one day people may be studying things that we can't imagine now. And it will be a scientist like Ian, who is willing to go and test something to make sure that what he doesn't believes in is incorrect instead of dismissing it.
To me the movie wasn't predictable. I didn't see the trailer before watching it and just read a one sentence description. So luckily for me the main idea and what will happen weren't open from the start which made the movie more enjoyable.
The acting was perfect. I liked how incredibly natural these people felt to me. The main character also being so complex. He isn't dull as people referred to him. He is normal. But being normal includes so many parts. He is the guy who believes in data but just for the hell of it follows the number 11. His attitude towards the female characters of the movie and changing of it. We can see him starting to respect Karen after dismissing her as a first year student he needs to get rid of. Somehow one feels the two are right for each other yet he ends up with Sofi at first, who is so different. Yet we get the passion that can make us miss the huge differences between us and the person we are with which gets to his mind in that fatal night in the elevator, as he then describes it to Karen. His character is important to the drama romance part of the movie and represent the humanity so well.
The little girl Kashish playing Salomina was also good and it is her first part! I love how vivid her face was when she was answering the questions in the hotel room.
Well, the movie was sure impressive. I just don't get why Ian didn't contact Dr. Simmons to talk about what she is researching. But this could be because he wanted to try first his own thing. And this way also getting a closure that he said he was missing after Sofi's death.
I will look out for more work of the director and the actors as I was impressed.