Thanks for the review, I also enjoyed the movie. You make a good point about the ending... her weeping in her wedding dress on the shoreline was really disturbing, like she's NEVER going to get over Sean or this weird experience with the little boy ... it made it all the more tragic to me, not a "happy ending," the way your more ambiguous ending would have left things. (Glazer definitely not into the happy ending as Under the Skin also proved.)

Thank you for this thoughtful review. I wish we would've had a reveal for Anna so she would know the truth about her husband. The idea of him that she had in her head was never real. The devotion she experiences now with her new husband is real and she's experiencing that for the first time. She actually got her happy ending. Does she ever realize it? I don't think she does. How cruel.

I saw this shortly after it came out, and returned to it again twice I think since then. This also really stuck with me, it is an underrated masterpiece. I loved it. Will watch it again, as I saw Zone of Interest recently, after realizing that Jonathan Glazer made this. Zone of Interest is also excellent, and so important, but I think with the score, the mood, the acting in this, Birth still haunts me. As a viewer I struggled with how to interpret it, and was caught up in the supernatural story of a lost love reincarnated. Then I came to see it as a study of love, loss, and grief. So many layers to it. And on the ending, that's one point I disagree with the reviewer on. The scene of Anna at her wedding to Joseph, struggling and then despairing, running into the ocean, was just gutting, had me weeping. Brilliant film. Thanks for the review, good to see someone who also appreciates this work of art.

I loved the movie and I agree with you that it is about love, pain and how a person can believe in something so absurd just to have the chance to be with the person they have lost. I believe that history is free to each person's perception; If we assume that he is a reincarnation, Shean as a child denies who he is because of the love he feels for her, because he could not stand the idea of ​​her finding out about her infidelity, in addition to the fact that what he had discovered was illogical to him. I think any reading you give it, it's still a fantastic story. Sorry for my English, it's my second language.

very insightful thank you

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