Has anyone seen "Birth"?

Question

I caught most of it last night, but I did not catch the beginning. Can anyone help and what did you think of it?

Answer 1

At the beginning of the movie, the woman having the affair with Nicole's character's husband hides her journal. The boy is someone unrelated who just happens to see her hide it and who then takes it. Presumably, by reading the journal, he becomes deeply infatuated with Nicole's character, and may even develop the delusional belief that he really IS the reincarnation of her husband.

How old do you have to be to fall in love? Excellent performances within this slowly-paced force the viewer to feel what the characters feel. Its implausibility & inadequate backstory hurt it, but it brings one through an emotional wringer nonetheless. I liked it quite well, and I found myself thinking about it even days after I had seen it. In my own personal database, I gave it a grade of B.

Answer 2

The premise of the death of a prominent scientist coinciding with the birth of a child and the two "souls" merging ten years later was an intriguing one. But despite the effective cinematography, especially the exterior scenes in New York City, there was a central problem to this film.

The major problem was in the characterization of the child. The main character Anna (Nicole Kidman) becomes attached to the 10-year-old boy who claims to be her deceased husband. Anna then develops an obsession with the child, throwing her engagement to Joseph (Danny Huston) into confusion.

If only the child had some personality and had been able to convey some of the charm of the deceased husband, it might have been possible to become engaged in this film as a supernatural thriller. (When Anna and the boy meet privately in Central Park, the site is Sean's death scene. A more appropriate spot would have been a special part of the park where the couple met in life--not the place where Sean died.) Throughout the film, the boy only asserted ad nauseum that he was the husband "Sean" without giving Anna any hint of the "soul" of her former husband. If only the screenwriters could have developed sensitively and insightfully the characterization of the child, this film could have been stunning.

The credibility gap was too wide for us to believe that Anna would actually begin to love the child as the reincarnation of her husband. It was also too difficult to believe that Joseph, Anna's family, and the child's parents would permit him to literally move into Anna's apartment.

The most effective scene in the film was the moment when Anna's sister-in-law Clara (Anne Heche) confronts the child with her own secrets pertaining to Anna and Sean. The entire film might have resonated this level of energy if only the little boy had been given a personality!

It is unfortunate that this little kid could not have been paired with Linda Blair's character in "The Exorcist." Now that would have been a perfect match!

Answer 3

I was confused and freaked out. It was too risky to have a young boy coming onto a grown woman and she is getting tempted....ugh! I either fell asleep or was just that confused because I can't remember the beginning or the end of the film

Answer 4

It's been awhile, but if I recall correctly, the film starts with the death of Nicole Kidman's husband and his funeral. Then we jump ahead 10 years to see that her character is finally to a place where she might be able to remarry, after many years of not being able to move on at all.

It was an unusual film, but I liked it ok.

Answer 5

Birth was a really interesting movie...i watched it a long time ago but i thought it was a good movie

Answer 6

This movie was horrible. I was very dissappointed

Answer 7

No. It looked way too sick for me to watch.

Answer 8

no clue.