Submitted by evident_company t3_10mml5u in movies
I just watched this movie for the first time and have not had a scene hit me the way this one did in, well, like ever.
Towards the end, when Theo and Kee are stuck on the top floor of that ghetto apartment block and pinned down by military forces, they just start walking down the hallway as the baby's cries swell. Residents stare, cry, reach out, and part to let them through, down each level. Then, the call to "cease fire" and the shell-shocked look of awe on the commanding officer's face as his brain processes what he's seeing, the dumbfounded stares of every successive soldier, and the moment where they walk down the last flight onto the ground floor is so unbelievably powerful. Every last man in that unit can't believe what he's seeing, staggers to their feet in a daze, and it is like everybody is snapped out of a daze and coming to terms with what the post-fertility world has turned them into, a moment of self-awareness you see spreading through the crowd.
It reaches a peak of religiosity that is suddenly interrupted by am explosion and EVERYBODY immediately snaps back into their conditioning and the battle resumes, with only one or two bothering to glance at what is both a miracle and the reason the soldiers are there as they leave.
Just felt like putting it out there in case people want to discuss :)