You won't be disappointed!

Surprisingly incoherent and boring

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

Leo Vidales (Gael García Bernal) is the successful creator of a video game website. His wife Ellen Vidales (Michelle Williams) is a stressed emergency room surgeon. They are away most of the time. Their daughter Jackie spends most of her days with the Filipino nanny Gloria. Leo goes to Bangkok on a business trip. He decides to relive his younger days by backpacking and meets prostitute Cookie. Ellen connects with a young patient and struggles with her relationship to her own child. Gloria is also struggling with her two young sons asking for her to return.Writer/director Lukas Moodysson seems more intent in making a point than making a compelling dramatic movie. For the most part, this moves at a snail's pace. The three separate stories are making some interesting points about exploitation, responsibility, and connectivity. There are problems when the three stories are combined to make a bigger point. Maybe there is no big point to be had. None of it matters because the plot meanders so slowly in the first half.

watch this movie if you are not able to sleep, it will cure your insomnia, phillipine expat life is not like they showed! this could have been a 30 minute TV show.the people know what the world is, the ones in the movie were spoiled.many are happy just to have a roof over their head and something to eat.movie did not show how the guy got a trip to Thailand, seems he is clueless about life.hookers in real life in Thailand do not look beautiful, they look like drug addicts. these were actresses. his grammar is ridiculous, his wife would not make enough to have a nanny or other things.go ahead and enjoy the sex trade think how your daughters will be the replacement

Since the development of Marx's critique of bourgeois society, the purpose of critical social theory has been to clarify how the economic forces that made possible the rise of modern capitalism exact costs that cannot be grasped in terms of political economy. Today, however, it has become more and more difficult to contend that individuals, social groups, and societies as entities, pay a price for economic progress (capitalism is expert at "outsourcing" suffering). Man has been acclimatized to his world, and resistance to the notion that there is no viable alternative to today's (laissez faire or otherwise) economic policies, has shrunk to the so-called "anti-globalisation movement". These critics usually stress that today's policies result in various forms of injustice and alienation, and violate many of the very values western democratic societies purport to embody.Lukas Moodysson's "Mammoth" aims to paint a portrait of life under twenty first century globalisation. It opens on Leo and Ellen Vidales, a wealthy Manhattan couple whose eight year old daughter, Jackie, is entrusted to a live in nanny called Gloria. Leo, a video game designer, epitomises our perpetually wired, yet wholly cocooned, media savvy generation. Emotionally and intellectually stunted, but always plugged in, he leaves his family indefinitely to travel to Thailand. There he hopes to sign a multi-million dollar contract with a big software company. The borders of finance are not only being redrawn, but eradicated. Leo travels across the globe to sign a cheque.An emergency room surgeon, Ellen's world is equally cold. Patients come in, she treats them, and they're shunted away. She returns home to an apartment as sterile as her hospital walls. Always working, she rarely sees her daughter or husband. Mirrored to the Vidales is Gloria, the couple's live in nanny. She slaves away in America only to send money back home to her children in the Phillippines. Like the Vidales, Gloria is alienated from her family. Unlike the Vidales, she earns scraps. While Jackie's father and mother are away, Jackie and Gloria grow close, each hoping to assuage loneliness. And so a mother seeks a surrogate child, a child a surrogate mother.Meanwhile, in Thailand, Leo hooks up with Cookie, a prostitute who sells her body to earn money for her own impoverished child. Leo then returns home after having confronted the dark underside of his life's Mobius strip. He hugs his wife and child, but nothing changes. The film ends on a note as dispiriting and depressing as everything that went on before.All artists want to say great things, but great art tends to speak invisibly, its messages disguised, almost imperceptible. "Mammoth" is well meaning but contrived, obvious and didactic, Moodysson constantly talking down to his audience. As a comparison, see Olivier Assayas' "Summer Hours", and his duology of "Demonlover" and "Boarding Gate", two trashy B movies which cover similar ground. Some other better films about globalisation: "Red Desert", "What Time Is It There?", "35 Shots of Rum", "Platform", "The Girlfriend Experience", "Miami Vice", "Syndromes and a Century", "Pulse", "L'Enfant", "Code46", "The Class" and late Romero/Chronenberg/Godard etc.If the film fails dramatically, it nevertheless captures the noxious alienation of Antonioni. Here, alienation is not just an undesirable by-product of techno-capitalism, but its very modus operandi. The film also captures a certain paradox of 21C life; its character's are increasingly connected, yet find themselves always moving farther and farther away from one another. The film's cast is weak, with the exception of actress Michelle Williams as Ellen. Williams made better, similarly themed films with "Wendy and Lucy" and "Land of Plenty".7/10 – Worth one viewing.

Like Innaritu's "Babel", Lukas Moodysson's "Mammoth" focuses on groups of people who share connections with each other, as well as the dilemma of family members parted from their loved ones by the need to earn a living in the global economy. At the film's opening Leo is some kind of computer game whiz, living the American dream with his wife Ellen and a delightful 7 Y-O daughter in a vast apartment high above the streets of Manhattan. Their child's nanny Gloria resides with them, but this conscientious immigrant worker's warm exterior conceals a growing agitation at being separated from two young sons, who live with their grandmother back in the Philippines.The idealistic, unworldly Leo must travel to Thailand for the signing of a business deal. As he sets off on his trip Ellen works a punishing schedule as an E.R. surgeon, fretting that she's losing her daughter's affection to Gloria, and compensating for this anxiety by getting emotionally entangled in the case of a child who has been brutally stabbed by his mother. After arriving at his Bangkok luxury hotel, Leo pines for his family, exchanging disjointed voice-mails with Ellen while he waits for the lawyers to conclude their negotiations. Eventually he escapes the city for a remote beach resort, where he befriends a young prostitute after rejecting her professional advances.The film takes its time building up the pressure, but it's no great hardship watching such a talented cast heating up the stew until the pot boils over. After the storm breaks, Moodysson seems determined to avoid sentimentality, and tosses his characters into a whirlpool of heavyweight turmoil. When calm is restored, it's clear the struggles of the poor will always be remorseless and life-threatening - but the film's closing moments suggest that Leo and Ellen might also suffer some devastating future upheavals. In contrast to "Babel's" more hopeful conclusion, "Mammoth's" audience might wonder if it deserved such a tough lesson that momentary lapses can lead to bitter consequences, and bad things happen to decent people.