Birth

Image   The presented is a dramatic film directed by Jonathan Glazer, which explores themes of love, loss and the complexity of life and death. The story follows Anna (played by Nicole Kidman), a woman who has been dealing with the death of her husband, Sean, who passed away ten years earlier. Anna is at a point in her life where she is about to recommit herself, but her world is rocked when a ten-year-old boy,…

"People don't know a good thing when they have it" is a proverb often applied by those familiar with the way the public reacted to certain films. One such event took place at 2004 Venice Film Festival when the audience booed *Birth*, a drama directed by Jonathan Glazer. The apparent reason for this was a scene that allegedly challenged the neo-puritanical standards of modern American cinema by depicting an adult and…