Primer about humanity

Rating: 10/10 (8 February 2006)

At the start of the movie, Ellie looks for a primer, something to explain the message she cannot decipher. But its really about her quest to decipher another message, that which it means to be human.
Its difficult to try to describe this movie, and its many themes, because how many pages can you write about what it means to be human? Best thing to say is to watch this movie with an open mind, and draw your own answers. If you watch this movie with preconceived notions of what is truth, you won't enjoy it, because you'll feel betrayed. This movie takes you along a certain conclusion and just when you feel the glow of affirmation, it yanks the rug out from under your feet, and says: "Guess again!"
But it does give one answer, one which we all know all along, yet each one of us fears the most: that the answers are within ourselves.