Having done a search and found no links, I wanted to talk about Children of Men. I must see this again in the theatre.
Emotionally the story is pretty wrenching, if a bit over the top. The idea that All of the planet is sterile and the youngest person is 18 years old is a fairly cool premise. No full explanation is ever given for this- a fact I LOVE.
The entire structure of delivery of information is so akin to real life, opposed to the normal film script where certain characters are charged with the onerous task of Moving The Plot Along. Offhanded comments and small bits of dialogue hint at a huge planet-wide biological event. The scene where the midwife/doula talks about calling all over the planet to check on other birthing centers, only to hear the same awful news about the drop-off in fertility was terrific.
Technically it’s a knock-out. I’m a professional cameraman and normally excessive hand-held drives me insane, as it did in the second Bourne film. Here, the operating is so fine and so tuned to the emotional content of each scene that it becomes an integral part of what we are feeling- as it should.
I want to know more about this world.
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