i be appal to see that the overall imdb rating for this movie be only 5 . 2 ( edit represent now down to 4 . 9. madness . later edit represent ah and now it up to 5 . 4 still abysmal . oh and and now it up to 5 . 9 go the right way and at least . ) . hopefully posterity will be kind to it than that . it be a very good and well act and well write and well filmed movie . apparently and though and it be too subtle for many viewer . the humanitarian situation it show be reality . the character may be fictional and and they may not be representative of the typical relief worker but they aren not suppose to be . this be a story of those particular two people and and how their feeling for each other grow out of the humanitarian work they be embroil in . there no separate the love story from the relief effort and because she fall in love with him because of his commitment to those effort . it true that and at the end in chechnya and she be more interested in him than in the local situation and but there be two very good reason for this represent one and unlike in ethiopia and cambodia she be only there to find him while she wasn not involve in some relief work there and so obviously his safety be foremost in her mind . and two and and more importantly and if she manage to save him and he could have continue be the man she fell in love with while continue his courageous commitment to fight death and suffering . so and i repeat and the love story and the humanitarian subject matter of this movie can not be separate . and the thing about her leave her own family while fer cry out loud and it wasn not a happy family . her cheating husband represent and both to angelina character and in a wider metaphorical sense and the numbing meaninglessness of a trivial and awkward and frequently loveless domestic situation and compare to the importance of save life and be in the company of infinitely more inspiring people . ( and what a refresh change to see her husband linus roach in the kind of role that so many woman portray in the usual hollywood movie and be the colorless and passive backdrop to the male hero . gratify to see it reversed and for once . ) the end of the movie be unexpected and and yet and in retrospect and it couldn not have end any other way . if the movie be serious about it subject matter the relief effort as well a the love story and it require an end of that sort . the survive daughter keep the hope for an eventual happy end alive . i be sadden that so many people do not get the movie . many of the criticism level against it be of scene that be mean to evoke that response and and which be address later in the movie . there a development go on while the character be grow in the course of the story and and so be the movie . many people apparently couldn not perceive that . this be an extremely well structure and rare and think provoking and sober type of movie that i be thankful could get make in this day and age ( and i have just buy the dvd ) . but what a pity it meet with such an insensitive public response . positive .