What I'm Watching: Children of Men

[thisglimpse]

This is easily one of the best, most powerful and meaningful scenes of any movie I've seen in a long time.

Here's the setup:  In the near future, everyone has become infertile.  Nobody's had a baby in 20 years.  And the government has become authoritarian, and is shipping out of England anybody not of English descent.    But one woman, a refugee,

Comments

[banzai]

Loved. So much of the cinematography is amazing-minute after minute without a single cut, sometimes over huge distances.

[sylvanus]

Agreed; haven't seen the film but that was powerful. Thanks for posting.

Found your journal through banzai's...

[joy_of_abigail]

And I completely agree. When I saw that film, that scene directly hit something so core to our humanity...it was amazing. Kudos for bringing it up.