Just watched Children of Men. I was a very fine film and an effective piece of social commentary.
I am a hard sell, by the way. Your classic tough audience. I am not quick to praise movies. In general, I resist most of the carp pulped out by Hollywood. This is not a Hollywood movie and I am amazed it got made.
At its base this is a very subversive take on capitalism and models a collapse of civilization as a direct result of pollution, global warming, and the migration of populations. The end of human-ness comes with and end of children. the film open with teh death of the last human born, a boy called Diego whow as the last child bron some 18 years ago. The empty ache of that moment, and all that goes with it, pervades the film.
I found the movie deeply moving and a fine critique of the decline of the west.
In the DVD is a 20 minute documentary called The Possibility of Hope. It quotes Hegel's Aesthetics. If you have been battered and hammered by the narrow bandwidth of what our politics dictate as possible, this is worth the cost of the DVD.
I am still ten minutes on the other side of my response to this film and am not doing it justice in this journal entry. Let me close by saying this is fine, fine, work and I will have more to say later.
I am a hard sell, by the way. Your classic tough audience. I am not quick to praise movies. In general, I resist most of the carp pulped out by Hollywood. This is not a Hollywood movie and I am amazed it got made.
At its base this is a very subversive take on capitalism and models a collapse of civilization as a direct result of pollution, global warming, and the migration of populations. The end of human-ness comes with and end of children. the film open with teh death of the last human born, a boy called Diego whow as the last child bron some 18 years ago. The empty ache of that moment, and all that goes with it, pervades the film.
I found the movie deeply moving and a fine critique of the decline of the west.
In the DVD is a 20 minute documentary called The Possibility of Hope. It quotes Hegel's Aesthetics. If you have been battered and hammered by the narrow bandwidth of what our politics dictate as possible, this is worth the cost of the DVD.
I am still ten minutes on the other side of my response to this film and am not doing it justice in this journal entry. Let me close by saying this is fine, fine, work and I will have more to say later.
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morgan:
Well said. I refuse to watch Roth movies for the same reason I refuse to watch things like "August Underground" or anything from the Guinea Pig series (I had the misfortune of seeing one of them, and I never will again). I don't understand the urge to see people murdered in the most disgusting and inhuman ways possible.
_pie_:
haven't seen it yet, but it's on my list