Please explain this movie to me!

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>>And kids love their new rich parent.

Not strictly accurate as the child at the end of the movie is suffering from alienation.

While I do get the irony in your post I think the point they was trying to make was that it wasn't abuse but rather neglect. The parents were too self-absorbed in their own misery to prioritize their children's future. The "System" was a way to break the cycle. Kidnap children to bring them to new parents who could secure their future.

Jenny loved her first mom, her second mom and her third mom. She can not decide whether she is happier this way or not. She knows they all loved her though, and always made choices hoping for her to be safe and happy.

The ending is open for interruption, as to whether the Tall Man group did the right thing for these kids or not. I think it isn't that easy, since a child in poverty does need help in my eyes, but stealing people's kids and allowing them to think the worse is pretty cruel.



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Your English is a whole lot better than a typical American's grasp is of any language other than English. I wish I was fluent in another language but like most Americans I can only speak English. Thus there is no need for you to apologize.

To sum_bellum who said : "I don't think French horror translates well, when it's not French."

It's a French movie but with the US as a background, and I don't mean just for the filming/acting but for the story too, that story wouldn't work in France. Poor families never end up on the street for example, instead they're put in projects or at worse in hotels (costing us a fortune). Also, towns can't be run down like that, even if half the people are on welfare the town will remove car wrecks etc. (often those towns have a communist mayor, known to do a lot for the poor).

Where I would agree is that is doesn't feel like a Hollywood movie, which is a good thing. Not that Hollywood doesn't make good movies, but more often than not they fit to a model with not many surprises. It was even more refreshing to see such a movie with a typically Hollywoodesque main actress (and an X-Files actor) !

To skotoparavich who said "the nurse chasing and fighting the mother of the child is something to think about. It is needed to give the impression that the nurse was the real mother so she had to be portrayed as a real mother who would do anything to save her child. However, she was not the real mother. She was the kidnapper. So it is a major weakness in the movie."

Others have said that she's trying to save the kid from her mother and to protect her kidnapping ring. But they forget that she cares for the children, in fact she loves them and says that she kept each kid for a time, we see her playing with the kid etc. Also, she can't have kids of her own. So in the van chase she is emotionally involved.

Also, you said that they sold the kids, by I disagree. Even if money was maybe involved, it was to keep the ring going, not to make money. And nothing implies money is involved, the tall man/husband/doctor feels insulted that the mother offers money, yes because his wife is in jail and the other woman dead, but also more generally, he has a tone meaning "we don't do this for money".

wow, yes that is really spot on.

Notably anyone could have directed the movie. With Pascal L. as director, lauded by some for doing the most terrible horror movie, it is all the more a terrific statement.

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If you didn't understand such a simple story you should try lobotomy for yourself. Unless you're american, in this case hollywood movies have already done the job.

I'm lost and after someone tried to explain it...I'm still lost. This movie out and out sucked badly. after the twist with the mom...it went deep left and never came back. if the poor kids are being taken...who were those kids at the end? wasn't a kid in the movie except the snatched ones ....then at the end it said a few months later...then there were big kids all over the place. this ranks up there with the wicker man as one of my alltime ,"WTF" is this this???

Julia was part of an organisation that kidnapped children from regions where children were "supposed" living in poor conditions (poor parents with no education, and this creating a vicious circle in which their children will follow the same path)

they don't "sell" the kids, hence the refusal of "the tall man" to accept money when he places the girl with the talking disorder ( I forgot her name ), they "placed" children in families where they believed they would receive a proper education and love

as for David, Julia kidnapped David back again from his real mother with the help of the girl with the talking disorder, and went down into the basement (that was connected with caves) handing it over to "the tall man" who placed David with the woman you see at the end of the movie

Julia, to protect this organisation, who she believed was doing good for the children, took all responsabilities for the "disappeared/murdered" children upon herself,

I had very low expectation going in for this movie, but I had to admit that I hadn't seen the twists coming, so for me the movie worked, the problem is to whom this movie is adressing itselves .... from the trailer it is "sold" as a horror/thriller, and the horrorfans won't like this movie, because it really isn't a horror movie, it's hard to give a lot away from the movie without giving the twists away, for me a good movie ....