An anti-hero in thongs Original title: Children of Men
Director: Alfonso Cuaron
Year: 2006
Production: USA
Length: 98 min.
Genre: drama / sci-fi
Rating: 7.5
How many times watching a movie one is led to reflect on how the imagination of the authors draw inspiration from reality, perhaps emphasis (even if we all learned how often the reality run faster and be more tragic than any apocalyptic fiction) and an extreme consequences of the diverse human actions? Vision "Children of Men" will test exactly this feeling, or to be confronted with something very real and not a representation of science fiction.
Slavoj Zizek, a prominent philosopher and cultural critic, speaking of the work of Alfonso Cuaron , even quotes Hegel and his "aesthetic " which maintains that a good portrait is more like the person that the person himself or In other words, a good portrait is more representative of the person he is portraying. This is
And what could the Mexican director with his film does not point to an alternate reality, but simply makes the reality more than it already is. In this respect was the decisive choice to shoot the film giving it a documentary, making extensive use of floor-length sequence and those attending would be the protagonists of the story as a war reporter. The same spots "blood splashing on the camera (they were originally a mistake, but in the end Cuaron and his cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki decided - fortunately - to keep them) do nothing but accentuate this sense of hyper-realism. The future
bad, bad and dirty that humanity is being built with his own hands is already before our eyes: environmental and socio-economic migration increasingly out of control, unbridled globalization, racial tensions and civil wars are, in fact, already our present. It makes little difference whether the scenario of all this is not a country of the former Yogoslavia or a state of the Middle East, but a Britain (which is a fundamental choice in more because of its character as a country traditionalist par excellence) remained only defense of a world that has already crossed the threshold of collapse. A bastion but looks like a Nazi regime, which, in the hope of preserving their barriers and ensure minimum services for its citizens, has erased the concept of human dignity of all others. The borders were closed, the refugees are expelled (if not killed) after being deported in the city turned into a concentration camp. There is no longer a moral because there is no future and the great theme of the film - the total fertility of the human race - it's just a metaphor for a possible genocide.
Cuaron (but especially the writer PD James, author of the book from which the film is based) also tells us of the dangers of utopias and of those who blindly believe in them: we must fear most people who love the ideals that its like, because the past has taught us that good can lead to hatred also ideal for anyone who has the power to interfere with the deployment of the dream.
also preserve the art becomes a utopia and the David of Michelangelo saved by the Foundation for the Arts (established in the famous Central Electricity Battersea) appears as a sad and decontextualized piece of marble surrounded to a totally aseptic.
And the big pig with wings that sails between the towers of the central ( explicit homage to Pink Floyd's Animals cover and, in turn reference the allegorical novel "Animal Farm" by Orwell ) returns an even more terrible than this in mind. The music plays, in fact, a very important role: focus primarily on large tracks of the '60s and '70s is both synonymous with nostalgia and a witness to what the world has evolved more by that time until 2027, where c 'tecnolgia is small compared to our present and what little there is, is already dilapidated.
An evocative film, full of meanings and probably unrealistic in the same way that puts the issues under discussion. Many points of reflection is not helped by a screenplay that does not always equal remains the only (but not marginal) new film.
Despite this "Children of Men" should be viewed and reviewed, both for its valuable technical solutions for both hot and most modern topics. You just have to follow the faltering steps dell'antieroe Theo- Clive Owen that snug fit as inappropriate flip-flops, will be overwhelmed by events and will be forced against his will to fight his depression and his nihilism to return to a future ' humanity.
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