The artwork, the production design, the music I could go on and on: this is one of those few real masterworks where everything just comes together right. 'Children of Men' is a gut-wrenching look at an all too possible future, but it also works as a heart-stopping, adrenaline-rush-inducing piece of entertainment featuring some of the most breathtaking camera work you'll ever see. It's a cinéphile's dream come true it's a masterpiece in the true sense of the word. I was forced to conclude that this film was a visionary piece of art (and how that fact had eluded me the first time around I couldn't - and still can't - explain). This film is so, so, good! It not only manages in many aspects to be the most prophetic - and most shockingly realistic - sci-fi film I have ever seen: it achieves that feat with a level of style and through such an abundance of fantastic creative choices and innovative camera techniques that I was simply left in awe. Last month, a decade later almost to the day, I suddenly felt the urge to revisit the film (because it was mentioned in an article about "long takes"), and upon re-watching it, it just blew my mind.
At the time, it failed to resonate with me on a deeper level - which in hindsight I find astounding.
I first saw 'Children of Men' when it came out, 10 years ago, and while I liked it a lot, I kind of forgot about it soon. But Theo and Julian would always bring Dylan. But, you know, everything happens for a reason. So, why bother if life's going to make its own choices? You see, Theo's faith lost out to chance. And in 2008, along came the flu pandemic. He had little hands, little legs, little feet. But they were there because of what they believed in in the first place, their faith. Jasper: Yeah, there you go! Julian and Theo met among a million protestors in a rally by chance. You've got faith over here, right? And chance over there.
Jasper: Strawberries? That's what it's called: Strawberry Cough! Jasper: Everything is a mythical, cosmic battle between faith and chance.
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