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Birth

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29 feature instances
4 referencing feature instances

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Birth	label	Birth
Birth	page	Birth
Birth	comment	Birth is Jonathan Glazer's second movie (after Sexy Beast). Nicole Kidman plays Anna, who has struggled to recover from the death of her husband, Sean. Ten years later, though, she's engaged to Joseph (Danny Huston) and seems much happier. But, on the night of her engagement, a mysterious young boy (Cameron Bright) comes to her and tells her that he's the reincarnation of her dead husband.
Birth	fetched	2024-04-30T03:16:25Z
Birth	parsed	2024-04-30T03:16:25Z
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Birth / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Birth / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Milo Addica, one of the screenwriters, plays Jimmy, the doorman at the building Anna and Joseph live in.
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Birth / int_3016de81	type	Reincarnation Romance
Birth / int_3016de81	comment	Reincarnation Romance: Deconstructed. Sean Jr wants this with Anna, which ignores that he's nine and she's in her thirties or forties. She resists for a while, then comes to believe him and agree with it. By then, he's changed his mind.
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Birth / int_4063acfd	type	Woman Scorned
Birth / int_4063acfd	comment	Woman Scorned: Clara was so jealous of Sean's refusal to leave Anna that even a decade later, she spitefully secures an invitation to Anna's engagement (despite a widowed Anna still deeply feeling Sean's loss) and intends to gift Anna's unopened love letters to Sean. Fortunately, at the last minute, she thinks better of it and instead buys Anna an expensive gift.
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Birth / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Birth / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Sean is able to move on from the incident with the help of a therapist and resumes being a well-adjusted boy. Anna, however, hasn't gotten over the trauma of the reopened wounds and has a breakdown at her own wedding.
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Birth / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
Birth / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: Joseph — frustrated by Sean repeatedly kicking his chair, but also simmering with rage at his intrusion into his and Anna's lives — throws a tantrum and lunges at Sean, dragging him into a room so that he can spank him. Clara is so angry at Sean aping her deceased lover that she repeatedly roughs him up when he tries to flee.
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Birth / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Birth / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The film opens and closes with a birth (Sean Jr.'s birth, and the birth of Anna's niece). Eleanor dryly comments that maybe the niece is Sean.
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Birth / int_55180ce	type	Snow Means Death
Birth / int_55180ce	comment	Snow Means Death: There is a lot of snow on the ground when Sean has a heart attack and dies while running. Downplayed for the rest of the movie. It's winter and melting snow can be seen in some scenes as Anna struggles with the reminder of Sean's death (and if he really has been reincarnated), but it's much less obvious.
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Birth / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
Birth / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: Both Clifford and Clara seem taken aback when Clara visits their apartment and begins explaining the situation with Sean, only to descend into babbling about how she thinks he could be the real deal. Subverted when it's revealed that Clara, who was secretly having an affair with the older Sean, was perfectly willing to accept and explore the idea of Sean being reincarnated, and was disappointed to realize that this wasn't the case.
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Birth / int_62b72e	type	Perilous Marriage Proposal
Birth / int_62b72e	comment	Perilous Marriage Proposal: "Sean" appears (or reappears) in Anna's life on the night that she gets engaged to Joseph, causing her to spiral.
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Birth / int_66907f54	type	Hourglass Plot
Birth / int_66907f54	comment	Hourglass Plot: Sean starts off as a Creepy Child Stalker with a Crush to Anna while she resists him. Then Sean Jr learns that the older Sean was having an affair with Clara, which causes him to change his mind about being a reincarnation. By then, Anna has been convinced that Sean is a reincarnation and tells him that they will run away together until they can remarry.
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Birth / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Birth / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: Clara, Sean's sister-in-law, was secretly having an affair with him. The gift she buried in the opening were love letters than Anna sent Sean, which Sean gifted to Clara unopened as proof of his love for only her. The younger Sean unearthed them and read them, proving that he was only working off of Anna's letters, and is not actually Sean's reincarnation... probably.
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Birth / int_6b7e3069	type	Birth-Death Juxtaposition
Birth / int_6b7e3069	comment	Birth-Death Juxtaposition: The ultimate example, as "Sean" claims to be the reincarnation of Anna's dead husband.
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Birth / int_80b5924	type	Left Hanging
Birth / int_80b5924	comment	Left Hanging: It's left deliberately unclear whether Sean is a reincarnation of the adult Sean. Clara insists that if he were really Sean, he'd have come to her first, but there are details (such as who told Anna that Santa wasn't real) that arguably wouldn't have come from the letters, and the older Sean did remain married to Anna, with Clara having some personal bias regarding where Sean's affections truly lay.
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Birth / int_8b68d9a7	type	Stalker with a Crush
Birth / int_8b68d9a7	comment	Stalker with a Crush: Joseph's engagement speech, though meant to be playful, inherently reveals that he essentially badgered Anna repeatedly to agree to a date and to marry him.
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Birth / int_8c80a69f	type	YourCheatingHeart
Birth / int_8c80a69f	comment	Your Cheating Heart: Sean was carrying on an affair with Clara, his sister-in-law, at the time of his death.
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Birth / int_96a33f11	type	Riddle for the Ages
Birth / int_96a33f11	comment	Riddle for the Ages: The big one: is Sean Jr a reincarnation of Anna's husband? How does Sean Jr know all that information about Anna and Sean? Did the older Sean love Anna? How much does Anna still believe Sean Jr is a reincarnation of her husband?
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Birth / int_99ddfcec	type	Unwitting Instigator of Doom
Birth / int_99ddfcec	comment	Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Clara's hasty, slapdash burial of Anna's letters leads Sean to find them, and nearly destroy Anna's life and relationship in the process.
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Birth / int_a1a1491e	type	Homage
Birth / int_a1a1491e	comment	Homage: The movie is full of homages to Rosemary's Baby. Both have a very straight-faced approach to their high-concept material, are set in a Big Applesauce version of New York City, and have a female protagonist with cropped hair struggling with young creepy boys who may mean them harm.
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Birth / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Birth / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: The subtext of Anna's remark when Sean is in the bathtub that "you're just a little boy."
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Birth / int_b2af79fb	type	Leave the Camera Running
Birth / int_b2af79fb	comment	Leave the Camera Running: When Anna and Joseph go to a concert after "Sean" collapses (when he refuses to tell Anna he'll leave her alone), the camera holds on Anna's face as she begins to wonder if "Sean" really is who he says he is.
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Birth / int_b5bd58a3	type	Rich Suitor, Poor Suitor
Birth / int_b5bd58a3	comment	Rich Suitor, Poor Suitor: Class differences are played with subtly. Jason is a wealthy man who can afford to take Anna to the opera and shop for expansive apartments with her, whereas Sean lives in a small apartment with his working-class parents (who describe Anna's family as "having money"). This also seemed to have been the case with Anna and the older Sean, as her family is obviously wealthy and has a longtime housekeeper, whereas Sean's brother lives in a modest apartment and is married to Clara, who is rougher around the edges and had Sean's love.
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Birth / int_bf9163d9	type	Blonde, Brunette, Redhead
Birth / int_bf9163d9	comment	Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Anna has red hair, her sister Laura is brunette, and their mother Eleanor (and Sean's mistress Clara) are blonde.
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Birth / int_d2b59903	type	Cool Old Lady
Birth / int_d2b59903	comment	Cool Old Lady: Eleanor, Anna's elderly mother, isn't putting up with any of this reincarnation nonsense. In the end, she even flatly tells the younger Sean that she never liked the older Sean.
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Birth / int_d3beb0de	type	Precocious Crush
Birth / int_d3beb0de	comment	Precocious Crush: Deconstructed. Sean is very Wise Beyond His Years and insists that the adult Anna is his wife. At first, Anna is touched by what she assumes to be an innocent crush, but when it emerges he's serious, his presence becomes that of a much more unsettling Stalker with a Crush even if he's only ten.
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Birth / int_e7e558	type	The Oner
Birth / int_e7e558	comment	The Oner: The opening shot of Sean running in the park at the beginning of the movie, right before he collapses and dies.
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Birth / int_f36c4f98	type	Easily Forgiven
Birth / int_f36c4f98	comment	Easily Forgiven: Despite the fact that Anna has essentially cheated on Joseph with a ten-year-old boy, he still forgives her. Even after she runs away during their wedding!
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Birth / int_f6972f9d	type	The Mourning After
Birth / int_f6972f9d	comment	The Mourning After: Anna has clearly struggled to get over the death of Sean. She's only managed it a full decade after his death and, even then, "Sean's" appearance pulls her straight back into her grief.
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Birth / int_f88f2449	type	Downer Beginning
Birth / int_f88f2449	comment	Downer Beginning: The film opens with the older Sean collapsing and dying during a jog.
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Birth	hasFeature	Perilous Marriage Proposal / int_b9adb585
Birth	hasFeature	Reincarnation Romance / int_b9adb585

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