Is it me or do the kids at the end of this film seem a little too happy running through the corn? Their parents have individually just been killed and the entire planet, including all other friends, family and pets has been incinerated. It's ok though...they've got bunny rabbits.
shareBy this point in the movie I had spotted the glowing tree and had started screaming 'DON'T TRUST THE TALKING SNAKE AND LEAVE THE APPLE ALONE!'
Honestly, for me that ruined what was an intriguing movie that effectively ended by throwing the bible at my face for the sake of it.
Well, to be fair, bunny rabbits are pretty awesome :-)
Also, as to why the boy might have looked happy...the girl he got "matched with" looked like a pretty cute kid, unnatural beauty, like a future Rose Byrne (they seriously looked like real life mother and daughter). So she'll probably grow into a beautiful woman someday, so he was probably thinking he lucked out. Hey, if aliens/angels matched me with someone beautiful, Rose Byrne or otherwise, and told her she was my soulmate, I'd be happy, too :-)
As for the religious/biblical stuff at the end, I didn't watch this movie until just now, and I accidentally read spoilers for the end before watching (was trying to see if the plot appealed to me)...so I thought it was going to be a lot more heavy handed than it was. I thought it was going to be a Rapture type ending where tons of people were taken into the sky to be saved. And it didn't end up being like that at all. Ending a "disaster movie" the way they did took balls, I thought. So apparently, when I was skimming the ending spoilers, I read it a little wrong...luckily :-)
But no, I didn't mind those themes or themes of fate/determinism, as the movie Signs appealed to me for much the same reasons. But then again, I'm a Christian. More the spiritual, liberal, peaceful, pacifist, loving kind like Jesus (or at least I try to be, though I'm not perfect), not the hate, judgment, self righteous, and intolerance kind. Most of the religious discussions I see on imdb get pretty heated and ugly, so I'm not sure how many here are like me, but I'm not comfortable doing that at all, seems to bring out the worst in people, while I'm very live and let live. So yeah, I would expect those themes to appeal to me. People really shouldn't be surprised such a film came from Proyas, since I'm pretty sure all his previous films in some way dealt with the soul and spiritual matters.
"Its only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything."