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Title: Birth? More like abortion...
Review: I cannot remember the last time I saw a film that began so spectacularly well only to so miserably blow it in the end. The first half of the film is like an Anton Chekhov ghost story by way of Stanley Kubrick - creepy, haunting, gorgeous, mysterious, transgressive - and then at some point it suddenly careers off a cliff. I was waiting for it to go south all along (so many films disappoint) but it kept getting better and better and my hopes kept lifting. When it began to get bad, it wasn't even in the typical Hollywood ways that I had expected. It was worse. The air went out of it, the suspense drained away - it was a movie that needed to remain at least partially ambiguous, to be allowed to be allegorical. Instead, the filmmakers tried to finally ground it in reality and ended up killing it off.
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