Spoiler alert! (Sorta.)
I thought this film was really interesting, fresh, and thought-provoking. I thought the relationships of the characters were clearly developed and, with the possible exception of the closing moments, so was the plot.
My only problem(?) with the movie comes in the music montage in the middle in which all of the sleeping characters are shown, along with their airplane seat numbers. This is a neat scene, but it occurs before it has been revealed that all of these characters are going (or as the case may be, not going) to Hawaii. I have to believe that this was intentional, given the care that was put into the rest of the film, but I can't really figure out for the life of me why it occurs.
The only possibility is to imply that it is fated that these characters are going on the trip even before the decision has been actually made and regardless of what happens next, but this seems to rob the movie of its powerful motive and moral that any of a person's actions in life have countless ramifications far beyond what they can see. Perhaps this, in the end is the true point of the movie, to illustrate the tense dichotomy between the power of the free will of man to make the choices he pleases and that of "fate" or as I see it divine sovereignty.
I thought this film was really interesting, fresh, and thought-provoking. I thought the relationships of the characters were clearly developed and, with the possible exception of the closing moments, so was the plot.
My only problem(?) with the movie comes in the music montage in the middle in which all of the sleeping characters are shown, along with their airplane seat numbers. This is a neat scene, but it occurs before it has been revealed that all of these characters are going (or as the case may be, not going) to Hawaii. I have to believe that this was intentional, given the care that was put into the rest of the film, but I can't really figure out for the life of me why it occurs.
The only possibility is to imply that it is fated that these characters are going on the trip even before the decision has been actually made and regardless of what happens next, but this seems to rob the movie of its powerful motive and moral that any of a person's actions in life have countless ramifications far beyond what they can see. Perhaps this, in the end is the true point of the movie, to illustrate the tense dichotomy between the power of the free will of man to make the choices he pleases and that of "fate" or as I see it divine sovereignty.