Children Of Men
Oct. 19th, 2006 11:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
craigoxbrowThis just in from the Cameo:
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teh_ninja_dave and I belatedly managed to see Children Of Men tonight.
It's excellent, up there with Hard Candy for my film of the year.
Shocking in places, exciting in others, funny in more, with a strange "I've been there" feeling for me right at the start, lots of long takes that must have been a nightmare to shoot (or seamlessly re-edit from multiple takes) and which are often quite astonishing, a strong visual style beyond that, grounding tricks ranging from the subtle and sneaky (check out Theo's sweatshirt) to the blatant (a restaging of THAT Iraqi prisoner torture photo was the most glaring out-of-the-fiction moment for me) and, joy of joys, going into it not knowing how it'll turn out.
If you can, go and see it.
teh_ninja_dave and I belatedly managed to see Children Of Men tonight.It's excellent, up there with Hard Candy for my film of the year.
Shocking in places, exciting in others, funny in more, with a strange "I've been there" feeling for me right at the start, lots of long takes that must have been a nightmare to shoot (or seamlessly re-edit from multiple takes) and which are often quite astonishing, a strong visual style beyond that, grounding tricks ranging from the subtle and sneaky (check out Theo's sweatshirt) to the blatant (a restaging of THAT Iraqi prisoner torture photo was the most glaring out-of-the-fiction moment for me) and, joy of joys, going into it not knowing how it'll turn out.
If you can, go and see it.
