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The one thing I could not get past in this movie, is the way the women were killed after having only one child. The first thought that came to my head was that the population was not changed at all. If one woman has one child and is then killed, the population remains the same. I guess one could argue that it is this child that will then go on to have several children in order to increase the population.

It just seems like, these people were going to all of these lengths to have children, why not have several? If they use the same handmaid for several children, it would not dilute the gene pool any more than if the wife had more than one child.

Another question, one of the reasons they kill the handmaids after giving birth is because they have fornicated, would they have killed one of the wives after she had a child?

There is also the scene where they kill a "rapist". They have told the women all along that they were raped because they wanted it, and that it is all their fault. So why would they punish a rapist? Why would the women feel so outraged at the rapist? I realize they claimed that he had caused a handmaid to miscarry, but shouldn't they have blamed the handmaid for the rape and miscarriage, since it "was all her fault"?

There are a lot of logical inconsistencies in this movie. If you ignore these, it turns out to be a good movie.

I wish people would stop writing comments about how stupid or unbelievable the endings to movies like this are. This movie was about a REAL EVENT, and people are writing reviews about how the title gave away the ending, or how there were too many scenes of the pilot getting her hair mussed in the wind. This movie tried, to the best of their ability, to recreate a real disaster. I think that they did an excellent job with this movie. No small detail was left out. They even tried to use, word for word, what was said between the pilots and the air traffic controllers.

This movie is one of many that have been made on the subject of suicide as seen from the survivors' point of view. I think that this one portrays it more realistically than a lot of the other ones. We see the family fighting about what they could have done and who's to blame. It is not another one of those movies where the family just suddenly becomes closer to each other, no matter what was going on before. I think that Meredith Baxter did an excellent job portraying the distraught mother. The rest of the cast was as well.