am i the only one who thought it was really ridiculous? everyone loved it but i just kept being reminded of jesus images.
although it has that very british apocalypse theme like 28 days later that is really awesome. i think it's different from american Big Dramas (those day after tomorrow, war of the world, day of the dead, armageddon kind of movies) because the american films always have the brave hero who saves the world. british movies are a bit more honestly deperate..but children of men was to messiah-y to be liked by me.
I thought about this constantly while watching it as well; I didn't really mind though.
After watching the movie I read some about it, and unsurprisingly the people involved in the movie are really transparent about parallels to the jesus myth being intentional (soundtrack was composed by a christian orthodox composer who included vaguely messeanic latin, sanskrit, etc. singing, pregnancy in the barn, the phrase "children of men" is biblical, etc.). But I felt like it was a reversioning of myth that didn't necessarily subscribe to it. By making the parallels more obvious I thought it just gave them better ground to comment on the whole mythology. It seemed much more honest to me that way than to have a more veiled messeanic theme, like a good chunk of any movies that deal with an apocalyptic situation or a totalitarian regime.
I thought it was good. but i would still really like to see an apocalyptic movie in this style that's actually realistic, no zombie hordes or sudden mass infertility, but just some good old global economic collapse.
I really liked it, but it's so effing intense. I took this guy I was seeing to it and it really, really depressed him. I felt really bad, actually, because I was all "it's so good! you'll really like it!" And then afterwards I had to sit there and console him for 20 minutes. It also made me feel like an insensitive cad.
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although it has that very british apocalypse theme like 28 days later that is really awesome. i think it's different from american Big Dramas (those day after tomorrow, war of the world, day of the dead, armageddon kind of movies) because the american films always have the brave hero who saves the world. british movies are a bit more honestly deperate..but children of men was to messiah-y to be liked by me.
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After watching the movie I read some about it, and unsurprisingly the people involved in the movie are really transparent about parallels to the jesus myth being intentional (soundtrack was composed by a christian orthodox composer who included vaguely messeanic latin, sanskrit, etc. singing, pregnancy in the barn, the phrase "children of men" is biblical, etc.). But I felt like it was a reversioning of myth that didn't necessarily subscribe to it. By making the parallels more obvious I thought it just gave them better ground to comment on the whole mythology. It seemed much more honest to me that way than to have a more veiled messeanic theme, like a good chunk of any movies that deal with an apocalyptic situation or a totalitarian regime.
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