A great moment

Rating: 8/10 (23 July 2005)

War of the world is probably one of the best movies Spielberg has ever made, along with "Schlinder's list". What was most impressive to me was the awfully dark climate, and the atmosphere gave me the strong feeling of an inevitable catastrophe, along with the wonderful and thrilling acting by Tom Cruise. I think that the main message of this film is not the end, a bit easy certainly, but the fact that a new life can easily replace the human life. I am quite receptive to this vision that life does not need humanity to go on, and this wonderful picture of blood-red landscapes shown in the movie mean nothing less than "life goes on... but without humans". Pay attention to the music Williams made at the end of the movie: is this a truly "happy end"? I suppose Spielberg made this end so unreal that no one can truly believe in it: the picture is not about a human victory, for once. This is one of its great qualities.