They saw a kid smartly working with a smartphone but what does that mean to them and to the point of the movie??
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They look at the child using the smartphone, he's texting and making a call without any trouble, it looks like he is used to it. That kid is about what, 6 or 7 years old. There's a huge generation gap between them and the kid, and technology makes the gap even bigger. I think that technology - and how different generations interact with it ( apps, social sites, devices ) - was a theme which was developped on the side throughout the movie. The final scene just shows how technology is omnipresent and kids nowadays have access to it at a very young age.
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6 or 7 years old? It couldn't even talk properly. You mustn't know kids very well. Try just over a year old.
share'it' couldn't talk ? You mean "he" couldn't talk properly. I'm not an expert no, I don't have kids and I am not really interested about kids stuff until I have my own. So yea, 6, 7, 8 who cares; the point is that kids nowadays are connected 24/7 with tablets, phones, internet, TV, and so on. Is it good? Bad? who really knows.
shareThe toddler was about 18 months old. Yes, they have an idea about how to use a smart phone... maybe make a phone call. Usually a parent would put on the app for them. It seems 3-4 years many children are working with them. You ask is it good? Basic knowledge is good, but being addicted to them for hours at a time isn't. Children need to have in person talk and communication.
shareNo, I mean "it". It was a gender neutral term since I couldn't remember if it was a boy or a girl as I commented long after seeing the movie. But how do you think a one-and-a-half year old is six, seven or eight years old? And no, kids these days are not connected 24/7 to tablets etc. Slight exaggeration don't you think? Maybe more than they should, but try and keep things in perspective.
shareThat's an interesting point. I think you can use "it" for a child in English, just like in German "Kind" (child) is a neuter noun. Once you get older, you can't be called an "it."
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Lmao
Yeah^ the kid was like 3, max
6 or 7 years old????? The kid was a toddler.
6 or 7? The kid was wearing a diaper. When was the last time you saw a diapered 7 year old?
shareOn the contrary, the baby's mastery of the phone makes the generational gap less big. It's an irony of the film that the people that child most resembles are not the young, twenty-something couple, but the forty-something Josh and Cornelia and their equally smartphone-obssessed friends. Rather than stressing generational differences, then, Baumbach is using the ending to point up how fluid culture actually is between the generations, how the timeline on which they rest is actually extremely amorphous and changing. The shot of the baby is infused with ambivalence, I think, for what the next generation will become. What is certain, and perhaps vaguely horrifying to Baumbach, is that that generation will not become that way on its own.
shareWe are all just babies.
shareWith the use of the new gadgets any kid will be a director, as this film proves.
shareInitially I took it to symbolize the threat of a younger generation.
I also think it could symbolize how age doesn't really play into wisdom or life. Do we ever truly know what we're doing? There's always a new challenge to deal with in life, regardless of the age.
Also, I highly doubt that child was knowingly & successfully sending text messages. (Which is also why I believe it could represent our not ever really knowing what we're doing in life.)
Whatever the baby was doing, mimicking or for real, it was the effect on Josh that was important.
He had just been through a major episode where he had been threatened by someone 20 years or so younger, both his personality and his career. He made some peace with it.
Now he watches how the new generation is set to roll.
That ending was both perfect and amazing.
I saw in it very different ending that other people in this thread mentioned, sort of The Graduate ending. They think they made their decision they wanna adopt baby and are ready to depart but then they see toddler playing skillfully with mobile which is kinda annoying since such young child should not play with mobile especially making calls to other people and now they are not sure if they really wanna child, since it's possible it's gonna be brat like Jamie or annoying as this toddler.
shareThis is also how I saw it. As a moment of hesitance, where the implication set in. They could end up raising another Jaime
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