There are more people alive now than have died in all of human history. But the number of dead people is increasing. One day, there isn't going to be any room to bury anyone anymore. So, what about skyscrapers for dead people that were built down? They could be underneath the skyscrapers for living people that are built up. You could bury people 100 floors down...and a whole dead world could be underneath the living one.
In both films, the protagonist is searching for something related to his late father. In this one, after his father died on the 9/11 tragedy, the nine year old boy Oskar search for an answer to a clue, which he thought his father had left him, in the hope to extend his father's presence with him for a little longer. I don't usually interested in family affair movie but the way Foer created this Oskar character and how both Stephen Daldry, the director, and Thomas Horn, the actor, animated the character into life made me so drawn into this movie. His anger, his intelligent, his curiosity, his fears, his passion. I was actually surprised seeing how negative the reviews both to the book and the film were and one critic said that it's like giving a nine year old boy the brain of a twenty eight year old Foer. Might be true, but then sometimes the joy of reading or watching something is when you see a part of yourself in the characters, doesn't matter how old they are.
