Birth(2004)- User Reviews

Mumbo jumbo or profound meaning

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First, the profound meaning: clinging to the past and attempting to resurrect the dead (or otherwise attempting to alter the natural order, i.e., when a guy dies he’s gone forever) leads one to evil (Kidman looked like the devil in her short hair and arched eyebrows). The other side is that some people need to be deluded in order to go on and if they lack their delusion then they go mad, as Kidman apparently did at the end. Her madness was in part attributed to the fact that everyone around her were vacuous and her passion for a 10 year old was more worthy than her relationship with everyone, including her husband; they had nothing.
On the other hand all of this could be mumbo jumbo and merely film that attempts to exploit and repeat Kidman’s success in The Others (2001) (absolutely mumbo jumbo sci-fi film).
I don’t know. The human mind attempts to imbue experience with meaning (probably because it all so meaningless).
I think it’s more likely it had the meaning that I attribute to it because it did poorly at the box office.