Monday, January 22, 2007
I just saw "Children of Men," the first movie I've seen on the big screen in a year. It was worth the wait; "Children" (based on a novel by British mystery writer P.D. James, which I read back in college) has the texture of prophecy. It depicts a future that's already upon us in more ways than one, from environmental decay to Orwellian politics -- and it moves with a mesmerizing grace that beckons you into its world in a way unseen since "Blade Runner." Eerie and wrenching, "Children of Men" begs -- and earns -- your attention.
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Ah! A fellow blogger has seen what I consider to be the best film to come out in the last three years. I saw it a few weeks ago and posted some brief thoughts here:
http://tfondacaro.blogspot.com/2007/01/cuarons-children-of-men.html
Director Alfonso Cuaron is just on a whole new level now. He's got the command and style on a Spielbergian level, but he's got it early in his career vs. Spielberg himself who didn't really get it until much later on.
"Children" is a hymn to our pessimism, our fears of the future and what we wish we won't become, namely the barbarians of the past. But it's all too easy to fall back on that, and this is what the movie points out. I think the whole premise of women not being able to bear children takes a rightful backseat to the much more poignant and significant motifs of human nature, compassion and selflessness.
Eeek! Hope that wasn't over-analyzing!xin
I hate to say it, but Cuaron's future is probably what we deserve.
It's also probably what we're going to get.
great movie! it is definitely one of the more plausible dystopias depicted on film.
The trailer for "Children of Men" presents the movie as a plausibly formulaic Hollywood movie. It isn't.
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