I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Great Film overall

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Absolutely Fantastic

Who we really are . ''Embers'' is all about the Naked truth of all the steps of humanity . The ''aggressive''. Chaotic , monkey one , is defending, full of fear and willing of survival . The ''couple'' . Naive , curious and ready to explore life and multiply but without strategy . The ''freedom'' , is ready to risk the life for knowledge of what is out there . The ''consciousness'', is trying to find a method for evolution and not giving up even if fails again and again . The ''Unknown ''. Silent like the future , is giving hope to the present . Small symbols in the middle . Power and freedom ( horse ) , Toys, sweets and comfort ,( candy lady ) ,is ready to hypnotize and keep the ''future'' static by challenging the ego . My ''end'' in this story maybe could be little less painful . I could bring the ''Unknown'' together with the ''freedom'' and the ''consciousness'' but this could be in a ''happy end'' fairy tail , not in real life . And this film want to show that everything goes on and nothing can anticipate the future . Great film .P.S. When it finished for a few seconds i wanted to smash the screen but when i think again … everything got so clear ;)

You know that feeling you get when you walk in a room and forget what you went in there to get? Well, someone made a whole movie with that theme. At the start of this film, I thought "oh, this is dumb!" And I thought there was no way I could watch all of it. But then, I became intrigued. And that's the whole point of this film - it's intriguing. The idea of not knowing anything about your past or future and the idea that every morning you wake with a completely clean slate. It's scary, but intriguing. And there's also the idea of having your memory intact, but not having any outside stimulus. *Spoiler Alert* There are two folks in a bunker with their memories intact, but the young girl is bored. Without new things, new images and just new everything, she is dying inside. Whereas the people who are outside without any memory are the ones who are "living." No matter what though, personality isn't necessarily about our memories according to this film because the chaos character is a mess - how ironic the would-be raper is raped. But, the nice thing about not having a memory it doesn't take long for the horror and trauma to disappear. The acting was well done and the storyline thought-provoking. Overall, it was intriguing.

I could not help but keep thinking about the Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel "100 Years of Solitude" and the insomnia plague that invaded the town of Macondo along with contagious amnesia that attacked many of Macondo's residents. They would have to write notes like "this is a cow, you must milk it daily" and label the chairs and tables. I also kept waiting for Embers to take me to a similar place of magical wonder. It almost did but then the movie was over.There were also many technical inconsistencies in the plot that, for a thought-provoking movie proved too much of a distraction for viewers' busy minds that are trying to absorb every detail on the screen and make something out of them. If Miranda and her father had been in the bunker for 9 years, why does everything outside have such a "recently abandoned" appearance? Is the whole thing an experiment? a hoax? Nobody is dirty, people are relatively neatly groomed (i.e. nobody has 9 years' worth of unkempt hair). Also, why do Miranda and her father speak Spanish if she was born in Singapore? Is she really who she thinks she is? Was the "self-check" a way to overcome the amnesia? a trick developed to help her be Miranda? was she really sick without her own knowledge? I mentally gave the movie the excuse that perhaps they were diplomats and moved on. But, after seeing the ending, it would have been so nice if the plot could have gone in any of all those other directions.Perhaps I should mention that my father suffers from Alzheimer's, so lately I find myself looking for movies that play with the concept of memory and the memory of love. My mother recently told me the story of how the dog across the street "decided" to love my dad and how the dog would come over every morning, and how my dad would meet the dog every morning (sometimes "for the first time") and feel the happiness of new friendship. My mother would feel happy for my dad in those moments, even though my dad is very sick. She found the feelings conflicting. For those very personal reasons, the story of Ben/Mark and Katie in Embers was to me the only redeeming part of this movie. I kept hoping that they would stumble upon the child, then find a matching bracelet, and the child would love them... like my dad must do in his mind... but Embers never went there either.True love is not something one decides to do, I believe it is a form of knowledge. We know that we love, we don't remember that we do. And that is the look I see on my father, even when he doesn't quite remember my name or thinks that I am my brother. If only the movie had gone there more. Then again, as some already hinted, we have seen that before in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.Ironically, if I could forget reading that Marquez' novel, I might have liked this movie more.

The characters in this film pull you into their world from the first minutes. Even while the premise is being developed, I was curious as to where they all will travel - physically, mentally, emotionally. The scenes are beautifully shot and the settings are stark and dramatic. Just when you think the characters are finding themselves and each other, and perhaps recovering from their circumstance, they are back again at their personal ground zero. I would like to know more, e.g., where the bunker family is getting their food, but that's for the viewer's imagination to resolve. The concluding scene was powerful - will we be seeing a sequel?