Children of Men = Dystopian Masterpiece.

I'm speechless. You have to see it. It's this century's Blade Runner.

Thanks for the tip, good sir. :patriot:

How've you been, not incidentally?

I miss goofin' around on here.

The article was about Emmanuel Lubezki, the Director of Photography, and about the innovative builds that were done to achieve certain shots. I'm glad I read the article, because there were a couple of shots I'd still be scratching my head in disbelief over, had I not learned the secrets in advance.

Without giving anything away, there's a scene in which the protagonists are trying to escape a roadside ambush, and the camera-work would have been impossible without the rigging they did. I mean, WOW. 360 degree action in a packed small moving car with stunt action going on all around them, then without a cut, camera exits the car and goes hand-held for the continuation of the scene.

:D

(Bill Murray voice)I'm taking my baby steps!(/Bill Murray voice)

:P

Glad you liked it, I've been looking forward to seeing it for a long time now. It sucks that I can only tolerate a movie about once every couple of weeks. It fucks up my back to sit that long. I end up watching most of the films I see on dvd.

Mix "Brazil", "Blade Runner" and "V for Vendetta" in equal parts along with a pinch of cautionary optomism, and you get "Children of Men".

Extremely disturbing, in parts, though.

Coming from you it's high praise

you keel me!

...but am looking forward to it.

I'll certainly have to investigate!

Thanks.

Liked it LOTS more than I thought I would. The reviews had me a bit confused. The ones I read made it sounds as though the fertility pandemic somehow caused all the social unrest. I couldn't quite make the link. But as I was watching the movie I realized that it didn't have to be read this way and probably wasn't meant to be. All the unrest seemed to be more like today's state of affairs extrapolated into the future, with a global infertility crisis to boot. The movie makes me think of "The Tin Drum", a movie in which a little boy stops growing as a protest against the state of the world during the WW2 era. In "Children of Men", children simply stopped being born into the world altogether. Anyway...that was my take on it. Overall, I thought the film was incredible. And relentless.

that because children are no longer being born, people have lost hope and have taken to fighting. the fact that the new British gov't is locking up anyone not "british" just fueled the resistance. It's like what the caretaker said, the absence of children laughing replaced hope with despair. So then when the kid "savior" is born everyone briefly stopped fighting and remembered what they missed.

...though I still lean towards my take on it if only because so much of the movie references events happening today--when there is no infertility pandemic--that I tend to put the social unrest before the infertility crisis in the scheme of things, rather than the other way around. Great movie either way, and I was surprised at how funny it actually managed to be.

Loved the book-can't wait to see it!