Strawberries?
Jan. 13th, 2007 01:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crienseltSaw Children of Men last night, and it was very, very good and very, very intense. Unexpected things happened and the movie did a good job of keeping up the tension. There was this one shot at the end that went on forever and with which I am totally in love. I don't know what the record is for the longest continuous shot in a movie (and I'm sure there are crazy long ones out there) but this one definitely has to at least rank as being one of the more complicated. It was violent without being overly gory, and overall I thought everything was handled/done in a fairly realistic way.
I really liked the characterization in the film. I liked that no one was good or evil (unlike V for Vendetta). I liked that Kee was just a normal girl. Her “I’m a virgin” thing totally got me for a second, though. I liked that the movie's point of view was limited to Theo and what he knew (save for that bit at the end). And I liked the resistance movement was just as bad as the government. (I also liked the fact that there was a kick-ass gypsy. Hurray for the Roma!)
Also, the movie had a really good soundtrack/was mixed really well. I loved the effect of the ringing from the explosion, and the songs did a really good job of involving you in the scenes.
And, y’know, it never really occurred to me how truly terrifying the idea of not being able to procreate is (and that is definitely something we all take for granted) and what the world would be like without children. Until it was addressed in the film, it never even occurred to me that there would be no schools.
I've a question, though, are we meant to believe that world is a total hell because of the lack of children, did it just happen as a natural progression of things, or did the world's fall to chaos lead in someway to our infertility? (I think we needed to know more about the Human Project. Or maybe I missed something...)
I really liked the characterization in the film. I liked that no one was good or evil (unlike V for Vendetta). I liked that Kee was just a normal girl. Her “I’m a virgin” thing totally got me for a second, though. I liked that the movie's point of view was limited to Theo and what he knew (save for that bit at the end). And I liked the resistance movement was just as bad as the government. (I also liked the fact that there was a kick-ass gypsy. Hurray for the Roma!)
Also, the movie had a really good soundtrack/was mixed really well. I loved the effect of the ringing from the explosion, and the songs did a really good job of involving you in the scenes.
And, y’know, it never really occurred to me how truly terrifying the idea of not being able to procreate is (and that is definitely something we all take for granted) and what the world would be like without children. Until it was addressed in the film, it never even occurred to me that there would be no schools.
I've a question, though, are we meant to believe that world is a total hell because of the lack of children, did it just happen as a natural progression of things, or did the world's fall to chaos lead in someway to our infertility? (I think we needed to know more about the Human Project. Or maybe I missed something...)
