Its effects on me: this movie increased my medication costs.
I've been diagnosed with major chronic depression and currently
being treated in a private hospital. I've picked this movie to watch
within my "time-passer", a time slot allocated to each patient in the
ward to get a relief and come to our senses and the feelings of the
life. I well came to my senses after watching this movie...
Though otherwise gloomy, the movie at the beginning intrigued me with
well portrayed grizzly fields, a school as big as our clinic(where
people are bred to donate their organs), impeccable portrayal of rules
and ordinance... I could see the deepness of the movie that was about
to reveal. Well ordered milk bottles, only to be drunk by innocent
sheep to be slaughtered later, great performances of actors that open
doors to inner sense of their well being... These scenes cured me
better than Prozac and xanax, well momentarily.
Later the scenes faded away and been replaced by the ones where people
get in lines to get cut and only smile back at their fates. No reason
to defy or take the control of their lives, they are willing to cut
into pieces and given to their originals to replace their defective
parts. My clinic therapist suggested that these scenes might have also
reversed my therapy progress and I should be writing down all of my
thoughts about this movie to get rid of it for the good.
Though I can see and understand the dark and dejected atmosphere of
certain lives in certain places (the infamous writer of the original
book is from Japan), this movie could easily grasp the last breath of
life you've left and blow it away to eternity. The kids whose facial
gestures only change from mild sad to utter sad grow into worse
characters who only momentarily smile to cry thereafter with
dreariness.
Although it may help some people to see the "profoundness" of the work
done by the director, this movie only helped me increasing my
medication costs. Unfortunately I can't get a refund of what I've lost
but, oh well, only thing you see in this movie is loss anyway.
Ironically the movie is testing whether the kids had souls (not that it
mattered to story line anyway), it may as well rape and steal yours.
So please stray away from this movie unless you want to get a taste of
Prozac and boredom. Utter disappointment.