Kittens! And "Children of Men"

[rusty_halo]

I'm very grateful for the new remake of The Hitcher. Yeah, it looks like a dumb movie, but it's resulted in Sean Bean being on my TV every five minutes due to the incessant commercials. He's even in the subway in gigantic scary-looking ads! (Not that I find him scary; you know I'm totally going to be rooting for his character. How could the guy

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[rockgoddes]

I have to say that I didn't enjoy watching it much either...I was very uncomfortable the entire time but I was also sucked right in. I told the rockgod it was one of the most depressing movies I've ever seen, 'cause I can see us headed in that direction, with the way things are going right now. *He* came out with a sense of hope.

[annihilatorbart]

Okay, I know I am going to sound like the spoilsport here, because everyone else seems to be okay with the "Alfonso Cuaron isn't about the story, he's about the emotion" thing, but

[rusty_halo]

Hee. Thanks for your comment.

Okay, look at the movie thematically. Why does the literal reason why the human race is infertile matter? They gave a clear thematic explanation, which is that the human race lost its respect for life, and so therefore lost its ability to create new life. Even if they'd come up with some literal explanation like government experimentation, it just would've wasted time with exposition and mucked up the metaphor.

Plus, I like that it ended ambiguously. I think the idea was to show that the world is still terribly fucked up, but at least there's a bit of hope. It doesn't matter what's actually going to happen to the girl or what the Human Project is, it just matters that the baby was able to make everyone stop and remember the value of life, even for just a moment.

You're definitely not the only one who had this issue. Pretty much everyone I've talked to about it has said something similar. (My friend jaydk had an argument about it tonight, because she wanted an explanation too