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I only had two problems with this movie...


1. They didn't say why the women couldn't get pregnant.

2. They didn't say how Kee was able to overcome the infertility problem.

The movie held my interest, but without those two things it made me dislike this movie.

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I didn't regard those as problems myself. Sometimes it spoils a story when everything is explained. It ruins the enigma, so to speak.

I'm one of those people who doesn't like it when a magician explains how he does his tricks.

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Lol. Different strokes for different folks.

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THis story was primarily Theo's story. Why the infertility and why it ended are up to you to consider.

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I don't buy it. This is a futuristic world and no one could figure out why?

Maybe it was a virus made by the government to lower the world's population.

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"I don't buy it. This is a futuristic world and no one could figure out why?"

As yet, we don't even know the underlying cause of irritable bowel syndrome.

For what it's worth, my own personal belief is that it was some kind of pathogen created by a rogue scientist. In the film there was mention of a flu pandemic. Maybe it was this mysterious flu pandemic (created by a rogue scientist?) that had the effect of sterilising the human population. It would explain why the animals aren't sterile as well.

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I remember when they talked about the flu pandemic too. I wish they would have gone into more detail about that.

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Really? We can barely cure any woman's infertility and actually we can't. We just developed methods to work around it. Now I'm going to assume even invitro didn't work.

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how do you know no one could figure it out? maybe the governments did but didnt tell anyone? But like i said since this is primarily Theo's story its completely irrelevant.

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Wow! I was thinking the same thing too!

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Let's not forget Kee. I think she's just as important to the story as Theo.

This sentence has nothing to do with what I just have written above.

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Those details just really are not important. The film is not about solving the mystery of infertility. It's about the people themselves. Infertility is just the stage is it set on

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Because nobody knew why.

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You are dumb. It is a movie. They can just make up a reason. You lose. Next!

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It being a mystery was kind of the point, though. It's not so much a movie about the mystery of infertility, but rather how humans deal with it. It is supposed to be unanswerable for characters and audience alike.

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Wow, this thread stupidity reigns "how do you know no one could figure it out? maybe the governments did but didnt tell anyone?" Right, or maybe a giant pigeon from Jupiter came down and spit on all the women of the world and rendered their bodies infertile, c'mon man, the story has to have at least a thread of credibility.

"It's just a film" yeah, and a very poor one at that.

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"Right, or maybe a giant pigeon from Jupiter came down and spit on all the women of the world and rendered their bodies infertile,"

But then you need to explain how the Jovian pigeon would have flown to Earth through the airless vacuum of space.

I think the explanation with the pathogen has plausibility. What does it matter that I had to make up the explanation myself? Not every film maker feels an obligation to spoon-feed the audience.

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