Hope and beauty beneath the chaos

Rating: Null/10 (11 January 2007)

Alright so pretty much I loved this movie purely because of the societal messages and ideas about human nature that it creates.
I would have to say I felt that the strongest part, the part that really made me think, was when 'theo' and 'kee' were walking through the crowd of soldiers, carrying the baby as everyone looked on. To me this sent the message that, despite societal restrains and conditions, everyone is still human. The soldiers, their guns cocked and ready, pointed at the next random person that they had planned to kill, still showed hope for the future. The baby, which stood for that hope, made them all stop and stare in awe. But just as the message had been beautiful, it ended with the soldiers turning away from their hope and resuming fire: Society imposes so many chains but, despite that, the chains can only bind. they cannot remove the human underneath the layers of bone, flesh and skin. But despite this glimmer of hope, the chains of society still hold fast.