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hyperform

I think this movie portraits one of the most realistic futures that ever made in history of cinema industry. No flying cars, laser guns, advanced ai, gigantic spacecrafts but the awful tomorrow that we might leave to our children as a legacy.

11 years 2 months ago

Siskoid

A science fiction fable/thriller set in the 2020s when a child has not been born in almost two decades. Clive Owen stars as a reluctant hero who must protect humanity's last hope at surviving, but it's not really about him. It's about the world Cuaron has created, and be extension, about ours. Children of Men is the ultimate victory of the global economy over humanity, with a fascist Britain savagely protecting its borders from refugees from the rest of the world's collapse. The gritty, washed-out documentarian camera, keeping all the effects in the background, creates an entirely believable - and terrifying - future. The film has perhaps the highest count of incidental animal appearances in all of cinema, a nice touch that reminds us of who will inherit this childless Earth.

8 years 7 months ago

sammysin

So incredibly beautiful.

12 years 2 months ago

nes1983

What makes the movie hard to watch is the MacGuffin. Because while you kind of know that you aren't supposed to think about the Human Project. That the movie is really about the journey, and not the reason to go there. But then again, you know, I'd like to know more about this dystopia: how did Britain become the only country of relative order? Was there a war? How did that play out? It's all very curious to me.

And it isn't completely irrelevant to the plot. Maybe the overall big picture of their times explains why there's so many dogs and cats. You want to see the big dystopia reflected in the small details. Rather than guess together a vague picture of the dystopia, you want to see how the overall structure of their dystopian world breaks down into minutiae.

Good movie, still.

12 years 3 months ago

Cadeicus

The thing I loved about this film is the amount of long uninterrupted scenes there are. I believe at one point the director actually called cut, because there was some fake blood on the lense, and they ignored him and finished the scene.

One of my favourite scenes is when they are in the car at the beginning. The way the camera was able to capture everyone in the car without cutting for like 5 minutes was incredible

9 years ago

moviewizguy

Dem long takes.

11 years 3 months ago

asiangotrice

I think a lot of people had problems with the film being largely ambiguous. However, there were clues shown throughout the whole film for possible explanations. Viewers should pay great attention to details when watching "Children of Men." I have to say that I loved every second of it and continue to watch the film over and over again.

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12 years 4 months ago

Marasmusine

A continual fustration is action/sci-fi films that rely on fast cuts, loud music and extreme shaky-cam for their action sequences.

Here we have a rare example of a film with tense action scenes that have long roaming takes and no score, with characters I care about.

12 years 9 months ago