Children of Men
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Saddens me that film making is getting further and further from this kind of poignant and unabashedly singular vision.
It’s upsetting how as the years go on, I’m seeing more and more similarities to the world that the film depicts. But in a strange way, that makes the film all the more important to me.
I had next written a free-associating post here about Christmas, and paganism, and Diwali and Holi, and cycles of the seasons, and life and death and resurrection. And I backspaced over it. But then I returned to the article and saw -- details I hadn't remembered -- that the director had gone very far in this direction himself, with Sanskrit verse and final text.
I think that, at its core, it's a primitive and fundamental story.
The most important stories:
1. The seasons repeat, with spring, summer, autumn, and winter.
2. You are born, you live, and then you die.
3. When a mommy and a daddy love each other very much --
Let me put it another way, like maybe the Indo-Europeans did:
Father Sky lies upon Mother Earth, and his rains come forth, and lo!, she bears fruit.
Living in London the past year as a foreigner made me think about this movie several times.
The "gimmick" is that nobody can have children anymore, but that's not really what it's about at all.
But thats just me, I didn't mean to be telling you what it has to be about for you.