Indigo

I was disappointed in this film as the film did not live up to its intro. A great premise was marred by bad acting and uneven production values. Make no mistake, the premise for this film is compelling. While the film makes a fairly good case, the idea and need to further study and discuss the subject matter of indigo children (thanks to the intro) the film just doesn't deliver! It certainly seems that the producers are trying to feed off of their first born in this genre, "What the Bleep Do We Know..., Like Bleep it promises existentialist views of rather unexplained events and experiences in our life with a spin that was thought provoking and entertaining. A better film could have done that. Come on guys - don't kill a great start!

I heard this movie was made for only $500,000 and shot in only 3 weeks or so. Keeping this in mind I feel on a technical level they did the best they could with such limited resources. I know if they had more money and time they could have gotten better actors or at least better performances out of the existing ones (i did notice most of the smaller roles seemed to have better actors than the major roles hmmm).

My biggest concern about this film is that it sets unrealistic expectations of the capabilities of indigo children. The girl in the film professes that she is actually at the lower end of the ability scale and that there are others much more gifted than herself.

I feel it would have been more fair to say she was more gifted than most and that the gifts of most indigo children actually center around having a more general deep intuitiveness and spiritual knowledge.

I worry that most people will now dismiss or overlook the indigo phenomenon when they don't see children running around predicting the future, healing the sick and communicating telepathically with other indigo children around the world via the etheric web.

I was really psyched to see this movie. I had heard so much about it (SO MUCH) and had the pleasure of meeting Stephen Simon, who was extremely compelling in his presentation of his mission, and the film. I took my daughter with me to see it, at a benefit. Cost me $50. Had it not cost $50, I would have been out of the theater in no time. Dismal acting, deadly plot, laughable dialogue. Great mountain shots, though! Actually, those shots were jarringly good; what were they doing in this movie? We were sold a bill of goods. Over-hyped, underachieving, preaching to the choir claptrap. I AM THE CHOIR! And I don't care to be patronized. So, let the good IL' boys do their thing, but count me out.

I'd never heard of indigo children until a month ago, and just happened to see this movie while browsing at the video store. I thought it might help me learn a little more about this phenomenon.

Five minutes into the movie, I was sure it must have been a made-for-TV movie. Ten minutes into the movie, I was sure it was a really bad made-for-TV movie. Fifteen minutes into the movie, I was tempted to turn it off.

Technically speaking, the soundtrack was nothing but irritating. There was sappy violin music playing louder than the dialog. Add to that the fact that the grandfather whispered most of his lines, and you have a recipe for real irritation. My finger was worn out by the movie's end, having to continually raise and lower the volume.

The script was unoriginal and predictable, reminding me of a story a 6th grader might write. The movie taught me only one thing about indigo children, and that is the origin of the term (indigo for their "aura"). Beyond that, I'm supposed to believe there are a bunch of Jesus-like children in the world, healing the sick and seeing the future? If that's so, why has there been no media about these miracles? Better they should have interviewed some 'real' indigo children and their families, so we'd get a true sense of them and what they think and can do.

This movie was a big disappointment.

I visited the showing of Indigo in Amsterdam and I invited six friends to join me. Stimulated by the emails, the announcements from the Spiritual Cinema Circle and a trailer-DVD that was sent to me, I had high expectations. That was my first mistake and it reminded me not to expect anything in life. I agree with most of the negative comments about the movie and I am not going to repeat them. I would like to add the following:

1. The indigo child was turned into a super child by combining several rare but proved traits in one character. That made her as unrealistic as Raymond Rabbit (Dustin Hoffman) in Rain Man. The negative effect of this mistake is that viewers can no longer identify themselves with indigo children. They would think "they are definitely not me" rather than attempting to discover aspects of indigo children in themselves.

2. All interesting story lines came to a happy end when Ray (Neale Donald Walsch) prevented the indigo child Grace from being kidnapped by her father. Helas, that already happened after 10 minutes! The rest of the time was killed by driving to a safe place and smart answers of the super child.

3. In one of the last scenes a police agent showed up who appears to have stolen the money. Was that a coincidence too stupid to be true, the work of the super child or a failed attempt to correct a mistake in the script?

I don't mind the bad casting and acting. After all this is a low budget movie. But if you take that out, it is still a bad movie, technically and spiritually. Therefore I don't think it serves the producers to continue the one-sided promotion of the movie on their website and in their press releases. If they are lucky, this might only help them financially in the short term. But it will definitely ruin their reputation in the long term, which would be a pity for the spiritual community and the society as a whole.

The good things I see in this movie are the raising of awareness for indigo children and the learning experience.

Hopefully, the stakeholders are more critical privately than they demonstrate publicly. Only then their new project, a film about Neale Donald Walsch, can become successful.

But I could be wrong. Let's see.