Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24276288-20140502064557/@comment-17363104-20140502130333

I agree about the camera, I really liked how much more involved it made the viewer feel.

I never said Andrew was weak-willed, I believe quite the contrary, in fact. However, he was never particularly emotionally stable. And I agree, the father was a completely cliche asshole.

As for how much stronger he was, I think that one the one hand yes, he put more time into it then the other guys. But remember it was one of the other guys that figured out the flying, not Andrew, so he wasn't leagues ahead of them by default. The same not-Andrew was also the first one to move something as large as a car. I think another factor for him being stronger is that he wasn't physically strong, and never really focused on being so, he instead put what time and effort the other guys were putting towards staying relatively in shape and put it towards tk.

As the vast majority of us have it now, I agree that there's no real need for 'rules' for psi, but we're hardly to the point of being able to kill every person in a room with a single thought. If that were the case, and there were enough of us for it to not be considered an anomoly, then laws would be created for it, and you would be held just as accountable for being alone with someone and they suddenly just drop dead then if you shot them in the face with a shotgun. (Assuming there's something that allows it to be known it was your action.)

The legal non-existance of psi has nothing to do with anything, frankly. If you're somewhere with no laws at all, it's just as wrong to kill someone for no good reason as it is if you're in a random US suberb. You may not be legally penalised for it, but the action is just as wrong.

Matt gets a touch annoying at times, and yes was weaker with tk then Andrew, but his morals and drive to make changes for good can't be denied. Andrew eventually decides he should just kill everyone, so as much as I like the character, he clearly went psycho towards the end of the movie. Personally, my favorite character in the movie was Steve. He proved to be the most inventive of the three, and seemed almost as strong as Andrew, though he lacked the same finesse. He seems to be a general middle ground between Andrew and Matt, since he also has a decent moral compass, but isn't in your face about it like Matt and his (as you put it, Everland.) "Hero complex".