Asymptomatic

I watched War of the Worlds and Ultaviolet over the weekend. There were many things that I liked about War of the Worlds, and many things I did not like about Ultraviolet.

I enjoyed the fact that the main character of War of the Worlds was flawed. Perhaps a bit too much. On one hand, he wants to protect his kids. On the other, it really does seem like he is trying to get them to their mother so that he can dump them off.

Judging from how Berta reacted, she seemed to think that the gun was a sign of bad things to come. I’m not sure I felt that way. I think that in a situation where I don’t know what I’m going to have to do to survive, I’m certainly not going to leave the gun behind. Yet, I think the movie tried to enhance her feeling about the gun - in the scene where they enter the mother’s house and try to get rest in the basement, the camera seems to focus on him removing the gun from his belt. This seemed unnecessary to me, since the gun didn’t factor in that scene at all.

When it finally came time to use the gun, did he really think he was going to be the only one who had one?