Apart from everything, it's simply a beautiful movie

Rating: 9/10 (18 May 2009)

It's not your scariest movie. It's not the scariest movie you will ever see, either. Not in a conventional way, anyway. It's not a monster movie; or is it? It's certainly a movie that forces you to use your thoughts. It's a great movie: it's a visually plausible picture with great acting and amazing music and score. Who are really the monsters here? Can you create an utopia? Can you keep people in the dark, even if it's just to protect them from the dangers of the outside world? And if that is not the scariest of all concepts, what is? The concept is everything but new. Which parent hasn't tried to keep their child in the cage, locked up in the room upstairs until they turn 18, then 21, then 40? It's not about being protective or overprotective; it's about control and power. It's about having power over somebody else; it's about being somewhat better, stronger. Perhaps this is the biggest moral issue worth analyzing here. The answer is yours to get. The movie, just don't tell anyone how it ends.