Sick Product of a Sick System

For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Tense, harrowing, subtle...and just a teeny bit boring. Aesthetically it's beautiful, the acting is great on all sides, although Matt Smith is occasionally just Matt Smith. This is a wonderful idea, and you can really see what they tried to do with it. The problem is that the meat of the movie is just not there. Endless silences do build tension, and reinforce the atmosphere of secrecy, but honestly after an hour you'll find yourself distracted. Much more could have been made of this spectacular idea, especially with this cast, if only the script were just a little bit more dense and satisfying. Ultimately I was interested, but bored.

Jeez… This movie… For me I can view it from two sides. And I think most people who watch this movie see similarly like I do.On one hand, we have a serious topic about cloning. That is the buzz of discussion not only for scientists, but also religious people, people who work with ethics, morals. Cloning might seem as opportunity to bring someone back – like in this movie Rebecca decides to save her friend Tommy, who died in a car accident. The only way to have him back is to give birth to his clone. But here comes the questions: who will give birth? Will the clone really be the same? How other people might react to the clone? I mean, all of his friends and family will be growing older and he will be in the infant age slowly growing up. Then what becomes the point of cloning? By the time, the clone will grow up, people might move on, as they would do without the clone. So is it just some second chance for the parents? But this movie goes even deeper: Rebecca is NOT Tommy's parent. She's his friend. She becomes his mother. And that motherhood is becoming disturbing as little Tommy is growing up and becoming the man he was before he died.Other people's opinion about clones is quite negative. Nobody wants to be friends with the "copies". Maybe it's because everybody wants to be unique, original. And there are people who are literally copies of someone. They bring back memories about that person. And not all memories can be good.Yes, this movie was quite disturbing. On the other hand, the music and acting are just brilliant. I know Eva Green's Rebecca might seem emotionless, but you can see from small twitches the hidden emotions. Well of course, she can't show all emotions – she was about to be Tommy's lover, and now she's his mother. There has to be A LOT of things hidden. I believe it is also painful for her to see Tommy becoming the man who died. Matt Smith (small pause for fangirling because of Doctor Who) showed a spawn of emotions. Anger, sadness, passion, goofiness, love, confusion – they were changing in his eyes and actions. It is very interesting to see how he starts understanding that not everything is right, that his mom is hiding something. I don't want to spoil anything, but it is fascinating and disturbing to see.The music takes you like into a fairytale. Yes, a fairytale of science fiction which is quite disturbing and fascinating at the same time. I recommend you to watch it, even though you might feel confused in your morals after it.

The theme of the film is haunting, provocative, controversial and irresistible. I had to see it as soon as I read the synopsis. It started hauntigly enough, with a pregnant woman and a beautiful beach. I am not going to go into details as far as the plot is concerned but this was supposed to be a love story. A woman clones and gives birth to a man who she is supposed to be in love with but not out of love, out of guilt, she felt guilty he died. I hate it when you know the director meant for the viewer to feel a certain emotion at a certain time and I felt none of that. I didn't feel the connection between the characters. In the beginning they were friends, than something more but not lovers, than a mother and child and in the end...well, see for yourself if you want to feel as if you have just wasted a couple of hours of your life. Great idea, really poorly executed.

Okay, so the reason I watched this movie was for Matt Smith, I originally saw him in Doctor Who and let me just say -This was a far cry from that role.Yes, I do love Matt Smith as an actor, I am not into his looks, but he - in my opinion - was perfectly suited for the role.He has great chemistry with Eva and the ending made me cry.I really recommend watching Womb, it is unique.Not much was said throughout the film, but it was so full of emotion, nothing HAD to be said. I'm going to give it a 9, again, really brilliant film from two amazing actors and I would love to see something along the lines of this movie again.