2009-04-08/48-51-44—2-21-3/19-15/10-10

Rating: 10/10 (19 April 2009)

I give "10" to this sometimes-clumsy movie, which doesn't make me feel good furthermore. That's a proof that it has something big inside.
Indeed, I have never seen movies with such brilliant and haunting ideas, which linked together, form something powerful.
Here, they are:
# Predicability or Fate: Are we free to decide or are we mere puppets? The lecture Cage delivers to his students is excellent because even my grandmother would have understand it
# encrypted prophecies: breaking the code is thrilling. Here, film-making is better than a mere book because it brings visual strength to an idea barely explained by words. The google search is thus an excellent idea. Then, knowing what will happen is provocative. How can you prevent it?
# Apocalypse: it's one of the rare movies in which "everyone else" is doomed. You get particularly anxious for the last moments. For Cage, those with his son and his last final heartbeats are really pretty moving. So sadness and love together, it's terrific! Again, the choice of Beethoven 7rd Symphony is pretty astute and it is something a book can't deliver (except if you switch on your Hi-Fi)
# E.T. are God(s): Already seen in Indiana Jones and a great debate: it's sure that UFO (if they exist) are the fairy tales of our modern, technological societies, and that would happen like God(s) to the primitive men. It's maybe the weakest part of the movie, because I still don't understand if they are more "chosen".
In fact, all those questions is one single question, that's "Is God exist"? If you try to answer this, you will have to answer all those thematic, and backwards, when you deal with any one of this thematic, you ask yourself this fundamental question and you do an act of belief, even if you aren't conscious And the better is that the movie can't answer clearly any of them!
All the cast/characters is excellent and moving: Cage as a single but lost father, his son as a mature and witty boy, his girlfriend with her fragility of having a terrible legacy!
In my opinion, it would have been the perfect final movie for the "X-Files". As a sequel is unlikely, it would have been an unforgettable goodbye, all the more poignant that with Mulder running all his life about UFO and Scully always wondering about God, they would have joined finally but shortly together!