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I’d wanted to see “Children of Men” <\/span>for sometime now. Last night I got the chance. Wow! What an amazing movie. Set twenty years<\/span> in the future at a time when there have been no babies born into the world for 18 years<\/span>. It’s a bleak, repressive, dreary and totally <\/span><\/span>believable<\/span> future<\/span>.<\/p>\n Clive Owen<\/span> plays Theo<\/span> a normal man suddenly thrust into a role that possibly entrusts him with the future of humankind<\/span>. Although Owen<\/span> gets top billing [along with co-stars Julianne Moore<\/span> and Michael Caine<\/span>], it truly is director<\/span> [and co-screenwriter<\/span>] Alfonso Cuaron<\/span> who is the star of this movie. His vision is so truly realized that we feel as if we are in the center of this nightmare world. His use of handheld cameras, long continuous shots, and harrowing set-ups leaves viewers on the edge of their seats and breathless. <\/span><\/p>\n The Good<\/span>: Cuaron’s direction<\/span>; sudden twists; Michael Caine’s character<\/span>; Owen’s <\/span>first escape with the woman; how\/why Owen<\/span> avoids execution in the city; Owen’s resolve<\/span> to get to the woman despite the war raging around him; the Gypsy woman;<\/span> the refugees’ and soldiers’ reaction to Owen <\/span>leading the woman out of the building; ALL of the background details [kept in the background] that make the future despair seem so real; the fact that Owen isn’t a super hero<\/span> and never picks up a gun — he’s a normal man<\/span> who rises to the occasion.<\/span><\/p>\n The Bad<\/span>: a world without children… the scene with the empty elementary schools and playground… that such a world of despair could be so believable<\/span><\/p>\n The Ugly<\/span>: People wounded\/dying from the battles.<\/span><\/p>\n Children of Men<\/span> is an amazing film.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’d wanted to see “Children of Men” for sometime now. Last night I got the chance. Wow! What an amazing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1657"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18308,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions\/18308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}