Returning 12 years after they first met, Rebecca (Eva Green)
and Tommy (Matt Smith), are together for only a short time before he dies in a
car accident. Rather than deal with her grief in a healthy way, she has him
cloned and she gives birth to him, then raises him as her son.
I went into this film knowing what was going to happen and
yet I still felt massively uncomfortable. They didn’t know each other for very
long when they were children and she left for 12 years, and when she came back they
only knew each other for maybe a week or something. I understand the feelings
you have for someone as a child can be overwhelming but you don’t know him now,
you’ll both have changed. We’re meant to get that they’re soul mates so fine,
you don’t have to have spent that much time with him, ok. I will buy into that
idea. But did nobody at this cloning clinic give you a psychological exam?
Maybe look into how unhealthy it would be to give birth and then raise the man
you were in love with? No? Right.
The whole time she’s raising him you are just waiting for
her to be inappropriate. At one point when he’s about 10, he pins her to the
ground and says “Now I can do whatever I want with you.” and they look like
they’re going to kiss. It’s so uncomfortable. I’m not really sure what she
thought was going to happen, she was going to raise him and then when he was an
adult they could get together again? I don’t understand. Their whole
relationship is strange and awkward. Then she finally shows him who he was and
they have sex. Then he leaves. So, she’s lost both of them, and one of them she
had to raise for 20-odd years. I’m just not sure what she expected to happen,
really.
It is the most excruciatingly slow film. I was bored and
uncomfortable for the majority of the film, which is not a good combination.
The story is definitely interesting but the film itself is just not done very
well.
4/10
She did it so that the human being that was Tommy could have another shot at life. She felt guilty for his death and wanted him to have another chance in some capacity. Being impregnated by him was a bonus. I think she was a 42 year old virgin at the end of the movie. It makes sense that she was as sexually clueless as the 10 year old on top of her in that uncomfortable scene. She was definitely turned on and attracted, just as he was. The first 13 minutes of the movie show her flirting with sexuality by almost beginning to masturbate, touching tommy's body but only as he sleeps, and running away when kissed for the first time. When she returns and Tommy 1 begins to initiate sex, she says that it feels weird and he stops. When Tommy 2 has sex with her, she feels the pain of penetration, the emotional weight of sleeping with her own son, the longing for the man she lost 20 years ago, the pleasures of sex, and ultimately the realization of a fantasy she's had for the 30 years since she first fell in love with a boy.
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