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Directed by: Jonathan Glazer

Cast: Nicole Kidman, Cameron Bright, Danny Huston, Lauren Bacall, Allison Elliott, Arliss Howard, Michael Desautels, Anne Heche, Peter Stormare

Runtime: 100 mins

It’s been a while since many of us have questioned this How strong is the pull of love? Is it endless or is it like a creature of the season that just flutters away into a devastating sunset. Birth is one of those few movies that can’t be felt in a single sitting. You need to watch it several times to get a feel of it. The truth is not as clear as it looks in this film. The director doesn’t drive us to an ultimate truth he wanders but hurts us in all his wanderings.

The story a boy comes at the front door of a lady whose husband just passed away. He has a proposition that might not be easy for her to forget. He seems to be someone who has a lack of love in his life. There is a lot this young boy has to say but he seems to be disillusioned. The director pulls at our heart with moments where the boy faints when he can’t see the women. But all this happens after the death of the one she loved. It all might seem confusing while you read this. This is because I don’t want any of you to see it for what reasoning many would offer you with. The film has a central theme it talks of several demons and scars on our souls that we fail to see. Scars missed by us through the passage of time.

By the end of the film nothing will actually be clear. This is one of the greatest points of this film there is so much room for interpretation. This can’t be the end of the world for this woman and boy who we have grown to love through the passage of this movie. Is this passage these two beings take a moral one is what we need to decide. Sometimes I feel there is a lot of anguish in the writer. He has lost someone he brings him back by telling a story of such incidences. But will this labor of love go down well with high grade of the human morals and existence. I haven’t even mentioned about the performances that curtail the hidden agendas of each characters. I guess the one to look out for is Nicole Kidman she betters upon whatever she has done till now. She will never be forgotten for the moment she created in the Opera where tears fell down her cheeks in real time.