Martian Child

2007

Director: Menno Meyjes

Distributor: New Line Cinema

Key Elements: Concept – Message – Lines

My Review:

A great story about how two people who feel adrift in life can be what the other needs.

It’s heartbreaking to see how abandonment affects kids, but it’s something that needs to be acknowledged.

I also like that it’s a story about the value of a father. We need more of that.

Trailer:



Quotes:

• He’s in the box.
  - That is so interesting.
• What made you think I’d be a good match for a boy who spends all his time in a box?
• I don't want to bring another kid into this world. But how do you argue against loving one that's already here?
• Just think of it as a bigger box.
• He thinks he’s from Mars and you write about Mars. That’s great!
• There’s no harm in being a little eccentric.
• Why did they send you here? You know, the Martians?
  - To join a family and to learn human beingness.
• When you’re here at home, it’s okay to be from Mars. But when you go out there with the rest of the earthlings, you gotta go by earth rules.
• Never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever give up. Winston Churchill said that, I think.
• There’s nothing you can do that would change the way I feel about you.
• Is it good to be like everyone else?
  - That’s a really good question.
• I do know, there's no one on this planet that loves Dennis anymore than I do.
• But then I started doing science and realized the Earth was spinning around the sun at 67,000 miles per hour and I thought "What the heck do I need to be a martian for?"
• Why do you think they left me?
  - I don’t know… because they were stupid. I will never ever ever ever ever ever ever leave you.

Still: