Film Rebirth

Rebirth was a movie about a white collar father Kyle involved in a cult Rebirth.

Technique montage was used in the beginning of the movie to tell the background of Kyle. This movie connected different scenes to give the audience basic idea about Kyle’s daily life. His daily life started with a kiss of his daughter and then he drove to his office. After getting off from work, he ended his day with his wife. The shot about Kyle’s daily had been repeated for two times indicating the exactly same and boring life he had. The beginning carried a foreshadowing of rebirth. This movie was full of surprise. Zack appeared unexpectedly and later on Kyle involved in a cult. The appear of Zack indicated that there must be something unusual. The most unexpected thing in the movie was that the protagonist didn’t leave Rebirth but advertised Rebirth with all his family. His friends Zack invited him to join in a program without telling Kyle what the program was. After Kyle went back home, he exercised like he used to do. But after exercising, he sat down and watched a video about the program Rebirth. This video used many successful examples to promote the program and Kyle smiled when he was watching it. This was a sign that he would like to join the Rebirth, and give himself a chance to rebirth.

Before Kyle got on the bus to their place for rebirth, a woman showed up and kept saying that Kyle was not belong to this group and should leave the program. This made the protagonist think about why he didn’t belong the group and should leave. On the contrary, Kyle believed that he should not leave. After arriving to a unknown place, Kyle was told to leave whenever he want. This part was kind of irony because Kyle unable to leave indeed. When Kyle was in the wish room, he saw a photographer was photoing. This explained why Kyle’s picture with those sexy women would be in his house. People in this place kept talking with Kyle and tried to confused him. The pink light in the room with three women and one old man was very ambiguous which made the atmosphere ambiguous too. People in that room looked like very nice and kind. In my opinion, they were trying to make Kyle more confused about what was going on. After Kyle gave out his anger, they got close to Kyle and took off his cloth. The pink light matched the scene perfectly.

Of course Kyle didn’t stay with the women but went to rescue his friend Zack after hearing the sign for help. However, this was another trick. In order to get rid of the place, Kyle put a knife on a man’s neck. Surprisingly, they were celebrating Kyle’s courage to do this and treated it as a rebirth. After Kyle backed home, he tried to leave Rebirth behind but found his house was full of Rebirth Produce. In this end of the movie, Kyle was willing to advertise the program Rebirth and saying how great it was. It was very a surprise to me. How could this happen?