Everybody should watch Children of Men

Dec 28 2009 Tags: , , , ,

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Children of Men is a bloody brilliant movie that the above trailer doesn’t quite do justice. It is quite simply the best dystopian/post-apocalyptic story my brain has ever had the pleasure of listening to.

The story revolves around the idea of what would happen if the whole world turned to shit, humanity was doomed and only England of all places, remained standing against the onslaught of shite. The best part is that the whole sequence of events and what exactly is going on is never quite explained. We’re told that the world started going fuckwards because of some sort of flu pandemic in 2008 – note the movie was made in 2006 and we had a bird flu scare in 2008 – and then in 2009 all women went sterile … this luckily hasn’t happend IRL yet.

Well the movie goes on 18 years after humans couldn’t make babies anymore. Inexplicably there is a civil war setting up about the rights of immigrants and the whole British government is being very Orwellian in operation. Interestingly, they’re becoming more and more Orwellian in real life as well.

Children of Men, next to the the awesome story, also features

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5 responses so far

  • http://hancic.info Jan Han?i?

    Yep, a truly amazing moivie. But I have a feeling it kinda got overlooked somehow by most of people.
    I remember my jaw literally doping to the floor in the 10 minute one-shoot action scene.
    Thanks for reminding me, I’ll watch this again ASAP!

  • http://swizec.com Swizec

    Yes, I’ve read they have pretty long one-shot scenes … but how can I tell them from the others?

  • http://hancic.info Jan Han?i?

    There is no cut. Just one long continuous shot. You have to pay attention though to notice that there wasn’t a cut for a long time :)

  • http://swizec.com Swizec

    Like the one where the camera is chasing mister main character through a battle and it looks like real footage from a warzone, the camera spattered in blood and everything?

    That was a awesome scene … pure moviegoing orgasmatron.

  • http://hancic.info Jan Han?i?

    Yes that’s the one! There are a couple of others, but shorter ones.

    But this one is truly amazing, I mean just look at how much stuff and explosions and actors and everything they put in one scene. Mind blowing really.

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