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Children Of Men - Kenji - 10-13-2006
The Japanese title is "Tomorrow World". I'll go to see "Tomorrow World". But, alas, we must wait until November.
Children Of Men - Kenji - 11-18-2006
Today, I saw "Children of Men", and.....wow, it's OUTSTANDING! This is absolutely into top 10 movies of this year.
One little baby's cry stopped people's killing each other...this is exactly this movie's major theme. That scene touched my heart.
Children Of Men - redheadmargo - 01-01-2007
Just saw the trailer for this movie...opens this friday in michigan...I will be there!!!
Children Of Men - Maggers - 02-19-2007
Dave Wrote:I saw this last night and was literally blown away.
The film is based on a novel by PD James and is in a near future where no children have been born for the last 18 years.
Based in a future Britain it is chilling how real everything looks, the technology blends seemlessly with the everyday we've seen for years in London. The production design deserves an Oscar. I really believe Britain could end up like this. And that scares me. Directed by a Mexican, he has captured Britain really well, perhaps like Sam Mendes caught America in American Beauty, Alfonso Cuarón saw Britain for it's reality, going beneath the gloss (in fact, ignoring the gloss altogether).
The special effects never seemed out of place and some scenes left you sitting there wondering 'how the hell did they do that?'
As dystopian goes, this is damning of our current ways and does not contain many laughs (although black humour does present itself), but the grim brutality and no holds barred nature of the plot made it more real than any other future based film I've ever seen. This film is harsh, in every way possible, and I loved every minute of it.
The acting is excellent with good turns from Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine, Chiwetel Ejiofor (yes I had to look that spelling up) and newcomer Claire-Hope Ashitey. The characters were real, you were there with them every moment, which leads us to...
...the direction. Wow. Directed by Alfonso Cuarón it was simply amazing. Single shots were used extensively, but not with talky moments, with full on action scenes, no cuts. Imagine the opening of Saving Private Ryan without a single cut, all in one take. I want to watch it again just to figure out how he did that.....
Dave
Dave, you summed up the film beautifully, though if you were "literally blown away" you wouldn't be here.
I finally saw "Children of Men" and thought it was great, though I was not as blown away by it as so many others on this board have been. It moved me, but not to tears.
The horror of the film is that it feels so real, as though it could happen in another 20 or 30 years.
Cuaron does it again; he's a master.
I loved the lack of explanation throughout the movie. No telling how the world came to be that way, and no telling whether or not the child will make a difference. We can only hope, and, indeed, that's the crux of the film. A world without hope is just no worth living in, but give us just a wee bit of hope and we'll clutch it to our hearts.
Children Of Men - webby - 03-02-2007
Found this link on a blog today: The in-movie graphics from Children of Men.
It's a kind of stand-alone film of the fictional advertising and other media that was part of the background in the movie. Pretty cool to see them up close like this.