24 Weeks

24 Weeks is not an easy watch, though it's compelling throughout.

Berrached's 24 Weeks is without question a bleak affair, excruciating even; it is an unflinching account of a impossible decision, a film that punishes its audience's judgement of a situation that is never black and white...

The final message and the method of transmitting it confirms that the objective of this proposal is to defend an idea; What is left over is the movie's disguise. [Full review in Spanish]

**It's a matter of birth and death.** A simple film and its sensitive theme. German films usually impresses me and this is another under-noticed film, needs some uplift. Not like a must see, but totally worth it. While I was watching it, I thought the film's characters turned a simple thing as a too complicate event. But yes, it's not that simple when it's related to pregnancy. Of course, it's different from faith to faith, between believers and non-believers. Then my mind went to the very ancient age. How all the animals shared the earth equally. But humans, a very unique from all, not the same as of now. Today, every day the technologies upgraded to an even better level. So why do we obsessed with that! To make life easier? Yes. Then there's always something that stops us benefiting from them. It lies within us, none other than 'emotions'! Why I'm saying all this! There's a reason that this film's main purpose to highlight how humans act while there's a technology to thwart errors in its initial stage itself. But we're mentally struggling, since life and death or the purpose of the living being was not yet explained by the science. I'm not a person of god. I don't believe in souls. I do believe only in consciousness. In my world, it replaces the word soul. But from all, there's a big difference between pain with conscious and pain without consciousness. A baby born with an…