Damn Good Movie
Oct. 29th, 2006 10:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lostcarparkI went to see Children of Men with James and Catlast night, and I have to say it is the best movie I've seen all year.
I went in knowing very little about it, except that it was some sort of Sci-Fi, and John Vaughan said it was good.
We start with Theo, a lowly government worker in a coffee shop, learning of the death of the youngest person on Earth, who was the last person born after women stopped concieving in 2009. This is an interesting premise, though we're never told the reason for it, and it becomes apparent that nobody has a clue. When Theo gets kidnapped by his ex-wife, who we learn is leader of the resistance to the totalarian government, and asked to transport help a woman across the country, it begins a chain of events that turns his life inside-out.
The movie takes us into a variety of different worlds, from the city streets where foreign refugees are being loaded into cages by police, behind the walls where the rich and powerful walk their zebras and poodles, out into the country where the rebels hide in their safe houses, and eventually through the fences to a refugee camp, a city in its own right with its own social structure and hierarchy. But that's only the backdrop, and the story just rolls through it all.
The characters all performed their rolls brilliantly, and the result is a movie that carries you along through twists and turns leaving you with no idea what to expect next.
While I liked V for Vandetta, I felt it lacked something. This movie really is every thing V should have been.
I went in knowing very little about it, except that it was some sort of Sci-Fi, and John Vaughan said it was good.
We start with Theo, a lowly government worker in a coffee shop, learning of the death of the youngest person on Earth, who was the last person born after women stopped concieving in 2009. This is an interesting premise, though we're never told the reason for it, and it becomes apparent that nobody has a clue. When Theo gets kidnapped by his ex-wife, who we learn is leader of the resistance to the totalarian government, and asked to transport help a woman across the country, it begins a chain of events that turns his life inside-out.
The movie takes us into a variety of different worlds, from the city streets where foreign refugees are being loaded into cages by police, behind the walls where the rich and powerful walk their zebras and poodles, out into the country where the rebels hide in their safe houses, and eventually through the fences to a refugee camp, a city in its own right with its own social structure and hierarchy. But that's only the backdrop, and the story just rolls through it all.
The characters all performed their rolls brilliantly, and the result is a movie that carries you along through twists and turns leaving you with no idea what to expect next.
While I liked V for Vandetta, I felt it lacked something. This movie really is every thing V should have been.
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Date: 2006-10-29 01:43 pm (UTC)I still haven't seen V for Vendetta...I should probably rent that out at some point because everyone is talking about it and I'd rather see it before I get told what happens at the end! :)
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Date: 2006-10-29 07:11 pm (UTC)Yeah, the ending was a bit sad, but I was left thinking, "Well, it's a medical ship, so maybe, just maybe, they were able to revive him."