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Unsure of how this is a 'truly awful movie'...

posted 11 years ago by lukeholmes549
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Okay, it won't make it into the top 100 movies of all time but I think that this film deserves more credit than some are giving it. Although there were obvious points, for me Jessica Biel's "son" never really seemed like her son to me, there were many twists and turns and it actually left the viewer with questions at the end. Not so much about the film, because that was wrapped up pretty well, but about morality and how your decisions affect the lives of others greatly.
The townspeople were affected by the decision to close the mine, the children were affected by the economic dive and their parents reactions, then Julia was affected by the entire situation to the point where she kidnapped kids and in the end someone in a big city ended up with a child.
Then there is the idea that this happens on a far greater scale.
Food for thought at least.

[–] Induna 11 years ago

You mean like Detroit? People going around kidnapping kids and selling them to rich career types in more prosperous big cities?

Do me a favour.

This film was terrible. It tried to critique the unfair adoption system in America by incorporating it into a horror movie. It just didn't work.

Are we to accept that the Doctor is running around in the shadows kidnapping children? His wife going to death row and not saying a thing to protect her "dead" husband? A large kidnapping ring not dissimilar to a paedophile ring existing in America?

It's ok to critique the ridiculous adoption system that exists today. That poorly educated families have 10 kids and are supported by the state welfare system but live in abject poverty and rich city types that put their careers first have all the wealth and opportunity but are made to jump through hoops to adopt a child from a home.

The system is broke but bringing that message home in a horror movie is the wrong way to do it.

[–] jabberttp 10 years ago

I agree, the movie wasn't bad. Frenchy had a much better movie in Martyrs, but The Tall Man wasn't bad.

Don't know why others are babbling about the Slimfast Man or some *beep*

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[–] lanina_001 9 years ago

Too many assumption on here: Firstly, it was never a horror movie, it subverted that as soon as the first Tall Man revealed herself. It was playing on fears of a mother. Second, of course he never acted like her son, he wasn't, and he knew he wasn't. She was grooming him to be adopted and to forget his mother. Third, these types of films aren't meant to answer questions, but provide them, and get the audience thinking. All those answers you are looking for, don't need to be answered (though some of them were, they just weren't spelled out).

All good movies leave you with questions—those that wrap up too nicely are just pushing a moral agenda. These questions aren't even pertinent to the understanding of the plot so they don't even count.