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Author: nagrom on January 13 2007 Viewed 7189 times. 13 people liked this blog. You can rate it below if you haven't already.
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I highly suggest that everybody see Children of Men.
It's one of the most emotionally potent movies I've ever seen and certainly the best depiction of guerrilla violence I've ever seen dramatized.
Absolutely brilliant.
A shameful spoiler of a preview:
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Unknownforce
lol - the fortress!
a classic!*
*classic pile of shit
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Fredo
maybe you are jaded and have hardened your heart. ;)
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filarion
yep, I suppose the combination of bleak post-apocalyptic scenario with "last best hope for mankind" has a hard time softening me up.
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Fredo
I was kidding of course, filarion. If it didn't speak to you it didn't speak to you. !!!
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everamzah
lol
the movie itself, honestly, imo, kinda blew in a couple of ways. it's subject matter was very personally touching and _intense_.... but the ending i thought blew. i wanted to see the human project. i thought the movie was short, and glossed over a couple of things... so i can see why some people didn't like it as much as i did. BUT BOY OH BOY overall, i thought it was very good. very real, very prophetic... very _possible_, and very scary haha... but i worry not ;)
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bsr
yeah, i really wanted to see 'the human project' too - it was like a carrot dangling in an old cartoon for the length of the film and then you never get to experience it - the ending could've been where another film started.
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Fredo
the quick appearance of the human project at the end was like the bells at the end of Breaking the Waves... the film is an allegory, folks. A boat with the word "Tomorrow" painted on the side couldn't be any more clearly a symbol.
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bsr
symbolism leaves me wanting. i suppose i'm massivley shallow or thick.
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everamzah
good point, fredo... but it's still my opinion that the movie was too short, and i _did_ yearn to visually experience their idea of tomorrow, and they did not provide me with that.... leaving, personally, and for others i know, something to be desired. that's all.
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everamzah
i still really loved the movie, and will be buying it for sure (ok, mom will be buying it, i'll be convincing her as to _why_ she should be buying it). it was an amazing movie, and would recommend it to anyone. universal, no?
anyone read the book it was based on?
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bsr
it felt like they ran out of cash so to paraphrase fredo though 'fuck it lets paint 'tomorrow' on the side of the boat and just end it here, it's symbolism and that means we're deep'
(sorry for the harsh tone, am only semi-serious, i really was looking forward to seeing something more at the end)
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Fredo
ooooops.
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Fredo
I totally agree, btw, that it was not the greatest of ends... everything up until that point was awesome, but think about it... they hadn't really invested too much in the idea of what "the human project" was... if they had gone further into it it would have sunk fast. I think they did the best they could with that sharp gesture. Yes, bsr, I agree, really... but for me the emotional impact of the discovery of the newborn by all those jaded, lost, frantic, pathetic people and the sudden quiet was what made the movie so valuable for me. And at least stylistically I felt the ending worked. So I was definitely able to forgive them some thinness...
I don't think the point of the film was to summon a vision of tomorrow. My feeling is that it was a reminder of what is precious within us... the tenderness that is at the heart of our existence. It was a bit of a wakeup call really. That's what I totally appreciate about this movie, and why I was on the verge of sobbing during the end war sequence.
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everamzah
well said fredo...
like i said i was glad i did not see it in the theatre cause i lost it as soon as the coffee shop blew :'( and cried throughout most all of the movie LOL
what can i say im a big girl
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filarion
maybe that's my big issue with it.. the whole idea of the Human Project as a humane organisation working to solve mankind's crisis is too far out for me to take seriously.. they might just as well be a bunch of mad scientists funded by the remainders of big business trying to save their own asses while leaving the immigrants out of the picture. oh, the resistance people showing up again _inside_ the high security refugee camp was slightly wierd as well I thought.
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