You have to pay attention to the film i think. First time i saw it i didnt really pay attention and i thought it was just an okay sci fi flick. when i saw it much later i was utterly blown away
There are so many levels to this movie, wow. You can relate Theo's association with animals to the story of Noah's Ark. Ultimately the movie ends with him and Key and her child in a boat, and the hope for humanity's future survives.
One of the best movies ever made. I’ll always encourage people to see it, since I genuinely believe that this movie is super important with a super important message.
I saw it the one time when it was in theaters and it broke me. I'll find the courage to revisit it someday, I'm sure. I loveee Kaufman; ETERNAL SUNSHINE and SYNECDOCHE are two of my favorites, and both may be covered with a video of their own someday.
Movies I Love (and so can you) Those are two of my favorites as well (especially Synecdoche). He's definitely one of the most under appreciated artist in the business. Anyway, by broke, do you mean it was too hard to analyze or that it made you too emotional? It's my second favorite Kaufman film personally
Theo' s greatest asset in the film is that he never stops pushing forward that's why he doesn't die in the coffee shop and that's why he gets the baby to it's destination successfully
The long take in the city ends when he enters the building and jumps down. Other than that, brilliant video and I too love children of men, extremely disappointing that it didn’t do well at the box office
I wonder why you are making essays less frequently. To me, you are one of the best movie essayists in youtube. This alongside Blade Runner 2049 one are my favorites.
The ringing in the beginning vs the children laughing at the end; I thought back to when Jules warned Theo that the ringing in his ears (after the coffee shop explosion) is his ear cells' swan song as they're dying & that once the ringing fades, he'll never hear that frequency again. The way I interpreted it, it's an intentional metaphorical comparison. The ringing is the swan song of children's laughter, as no one thinks they'll ever hear that noise again. Until the end, when children/hope returns & the ringing is replaced with laughing children.
For whatever reason I didn't get a notification when you posted this... I love your videos, hope to see more great ones in the future! Maybe ones on The Godfather (Part I or II or both), Eternal Sunshine, Mulholland Drive, Apocalypse Now, Synecdoche New York, The Tree of Life, and hopefully Moonlight as well!
My god! Someone who sees what I see. Fan if Julianne Moore and Clive Owen but the gritty detail, story, filmaking and just fucking story telling that makes you actually think! ? I miss the pre digital seventies .. So much. Great filmaking, my top 5. And great explanations and appreciation of craft on your part. I was a non union alternative music and film lighting tech in the 80s and 90s. Most of all I miss people who are willing to read, think, and talk. Honestly, for themselves. Thank you
Favorite film, hands down. Really excellent video, man. Also I think jasper is the guy I would pick if I could have lunch with any fictional character.
Dude you're sooooo underrated, big thanks I adore this movie, I watch it a lot cause it speaks to me a great deal because I live in Syria, you got a new fan I'll start watching all of your videos, keep going 💙
Would LOVE to hear your thoughts on the following films: Once Upon A Time In America Love Exposure The Thing City Of God The Thin Red Line Tarkovsky's 'The Mirror' Barry Lyndon Mulholland Drive Vivre Sa Vie Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
Haven't seen Haven't seen Haven't seen, but... I mean, I have to at some point, right? Love it, and have been tossing it around as my first non-English entry to this series Haven't seen it, but will at some point I'm sure Only Tarkovsky I've seen are Stalker (love it) and Rublev (need to see again) I just bought the Criterion blu-ray for Barry Lyndon, but that's one of Kubrick's I haven't gotten to yet Mulholland Dr is quickly becoming a favorite; the more I watch it the more I find to love about it Haven't seen LOVE Eternal Sunshine, and it'll get it's own video someday (as will Mulholland, probably)
Perhaps the most relevant film for our world. As Mark Fisher wrote "(it) cries out for a cultural reading". It's the culture we live in *right now* Nostalgia and pastiche. It's about why no "new babies" (cultural invention) are being born. It's not really about terrorism or migration. It's about why "it is easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine an end to capitalism" (attributed to Jameson & Zizek).
For some asian movies, that you might want to watch: oldboy, love exposure, confessions, lady vengeance, the man from nowhere, the good the bad the weird, city of life and death, re-cycle, everything from kurosawa. You ever watched some anime? Like ghost in the shell, akira, princess mononoke?
I love your videos and this one in particular but when you referenced relevance in terms of pointed social commentary was that as a negative to Do the Right Thing? That's not a particularly subtle film, but I think it's a masterpiece. Do you not share that same opinion?
Theo is a action heros in flip flops in this movie, but he loses one of his flip flops in the fight with syd... Theo run in bare foot and cut his foot because he has juste one flip flop on his feet. He is the best !
I think the last Fast/Furious movie I saw was the second one. Not out of principle or anything, just haven't found time for them. I hear 5-8 are excellent action movies.
Movies I Love (and so can you) Are you going to review this year's Best Picture contenders? Call Me By Your Name is, in my opinion, one of the top three best movies of this decade.
Theo are in flip flops and he loses a flip flops in the corridor but à fight with syd. Theo take the gun and syd punch him, theo in the floor, he get up and the flip flop going, theo want run but he cant, he Said: hoo fuck flip flops, he loses the sandal, shy fly in the corridor. Theo has juste one flip flop on his feet and he cut his bare foot outside.
Do you no5 remember 9/11 people went to work on that day as well. The points you make about "storytelling" are superficial i.e. anyone can see this and get what it implies that isn't hard. You are purely retelling exactly what transpire in the film plot point to plot point. You think your breaking the film down but your merely doing what Wikipedia does.... you are not looking pass the images on the screen to determine what the director wants us to learn. What is the director saying about the world, why is the director saying this and does he offer his insight into the issue by using the plot points you talk about in passing.
While I enjoy your story analysis of some of my favorite films, I find your understanding of the basics to be shallow. Lenses, lighting, sound and editing techniques are complicated than story structure. Most of the long takes in CoM use hidden edits. I highly recommend a video called Fake Long Takes on RUclips. After you watch it, you'll see the edits on CoM. That being said, keep up the good work.Thanks.
Your so limited in your perceptions of film that you think the easily derive plot is the meaning of the film lol when the subtext/meta commentary i.e. the things the director shows yous (Show do not tell) are literally metaphors that require knowledge to break down . You don't have the knowledge to break down what is going on is the film in a meta level. What is the film soppose to make you feel about what ? If you think the message of Children of Men is "pollution is bad...." then there's really nothing more to say to you because pollution is objectively bad and we don't need a film who messages is that. You cam grab onto that thread line but it shows the limited ability to comprehend beyond what you can see. What you don't see makes up far more of our reality then what we do see. The idea that the meaning of a film is purely derived from plot points would make films so bland that no one would have the need to see them after reading the plot, it's the fact that the film is so much more then the plot you see on screen is the reason why people need to see films for themselves as else they are not getting the experience the director wanted/created. You end up getting a opinion piece that just tells you the plot the most basic thing in films lol
Now, I will preface by saying I am pro-life i.e. anti-abortion... I do not mean to be political, here, but it is somewhat difficult when the movie has some political undertones. I did not think about abortion once until the director's quote at the end of this video regarding hope. We as a society can easily do away with children's voices as the character, Miriam wonderfully links with despair. I wonder if our world's pro-abortion policies are linked with people's lack of hope and belief in a higher power? An interesting question that came to me...
You are so pretentious.... objectective things can't be your subjective opinion. And maybe you just learned that how a story is told is just as if not more important then thr story itself shows you have never taken a class in cinema as this is the very first thing that get stated. I hate people portraying objective ideas as their opinion lol This film story is about Humanity losing their right to reproduce. The meta commentary i.e. what the director wants you to learn from the story being told is why you look at how the story is told. Agian these are objective facts and I'm not stating them as if " I discovered this knowledge from years of watching movies" ... I know this because that is the premise of any film to impart a idea/perspective thru storytelling. The issue is you have missed the entire point of the film. The point of the film is to what happens with the idea of "subplus" or more then what is needed. Industrialization made it so thousands of aminals and humans can live in these dense population centers, sometime only really achieved over the last 100 years. The effects of the current way of living is totally unknown. Humans have lived this long about 1900 years without mass industrialization thus we know can survive without it. We don't know if we can survive with it indefinitely. This film shows what the director images will happen if this way of life the idea of surplus isn't reformed. Just Mad Cow disease was birthed from feeding aminals to themselves and thru sheltering 1000s of them together. I just hate someone trying to say "in my opinion the film means this" when there's no opinion about it if you have taken a cinema class
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This movie gets a lot of credit, but at the same time not really. Critics love it and the general audience doesnt remember it. It is an amazing film
You have to pay attention to the film i think. First time i saw it i didnt really pay attention and i thought it was just an okay sci fi flick. when i saw it much later i was utterly blown away
There are so many levels to this movie, wow. You can relate Theo's association with animals to the story of Noah's Ark. Ultimately the movie ends with him and Key and her child in a boat, and the hope for humanity's future survives.
Wow, I didn't connect those dots, but that's spot on!
One of the best movies ever made. I’ll always encourage people to see it, since I genuinely believe that this movie is super important with a super important message.
I clicked so fast. You're such an underrated RUclipsr. Have you seen Anomalisa?
I saw it the one time when it was in theaters and it broke me. I'll find the courage to revisit it someday, I'm sure. I loveee Kaufman; ETERNAL SUNSHINE and SYNECDOCHE are two of my favorites, and both may be covered with a video of their own someday.
Movies I Love (and so can you) Those are two of my favorites as well (especially Synecdoche). He's definitely one of the most under appreciated artist in the business. Anyway, by broke, do you mean it was too hard to analyze or that it made you too emotional? It's my second favorite Kaufman film personally
Made me too emotional. I had to walk around outside alone for a few minutes afterwards to collect myself haha.
OMG YES
One of the best films ever made undoubtedly
"What state is the world in, that these headlines are relatively unremarkable"
2020 has entered the chat.
2021 has entered the chat.
2024 etc
Alfonso turned my fav director just in this film. Thank you so much the allegory explanation.
Theo' s greatest asset in the film is that he never stops pushing forward that's why he doesn't die in the coffee shop and that's why he gets the baby to it's destination successfully
Reminds me of the line in World War Z, "Movement is life".
goddamn, your taste in movies is impeccable. im always excited to sit with your opinion.
No such thing as good taste or bad taste. You just have similar tastes. Nothing impeccable about it.
George Daugherty there is absolutely good and bad taste.
It is simply one of the best movies ever made.
One of my favorite movies ever. Good video. Plus, it's got King Fucking Crimson in the soundtrack.
10:20 man, that long take of Dunkirk in Atonement is so fucking heart wrenching though
Children Of Men is a wonderful tales that gets more and more closer to life as life goes on. Your video analysis are fantastic.
I always thought Theo's affinity with the animals was an allusion to Noah's ark
I thought it was a reference to Christ birth
I think that the animals are replacing the children.
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One of the most important movies of all times
One of my favourite films for the 2ks. It has so much depth.
Without doubt, tyranny and despair is always defeated by the good people in this world, but only with great sacrifice.
Amazing Analysis of one of my favorite films. Truly a work of beauty, and I'm very happy you covered it.
greatest film in the last 2 decades
The long take in the city ends when he enters the building and jumps down. Other than that, brilliant video and I too love children of men, extremely disappointing that it didn’t do well at the box office
This is phenomenal. Great work.
Aww man you finally did my absolute favourite movie of all time. THANK YOU!
You are really brilliant at scripting these, wonderful uncovering of meaning that elevates the story so much higher.
I wonder why you are making essays less frequently. To me, you are one of the best movie essayists in youtube. This alongside Blade Runner 2049 one are my favorites.
The ringing in the beginning vs the children laughing at the end;
I thought back to when Jules warned Theo that the ringing in his ears (after the coffee shop explosion) is his ear cells' swan song as they're dying & that once the ringing fades, he'll never hear that frequency again.
The way I interpreted it, it's an intentional metaphorical comparison. The ringing is the swan song of children's laughter, as no one thinks they'll ever hear that noise again. Until the end, when children/hope returns & the ringing is replaced with laughing children.
What a spectacular commentary! Thank you for this!
Post more man, some of the best content on RUclips
They take a while :(
And you make me want to rewatch the movie
So excited to see you review one of my favorites and what I believe to be one of the best movies ever. Awesome review once again.
This my favorite movie since i watched it earlier this year!
For whatever reason I didn't get a notification when you posted this... I love your videos, hope to see more great ones in the future! Maybe ones on The Godfather (Part I or II or both), Eternal Sunshine, Mulholland Drive, Apocalypse Now, Synecdoche New York, The Tree of Life, and hopefully Moonlight as well!
My god! Someone who sees what I see. Fan if Julianne Moore and Clive Owen but the gritty detail, story, filmaking and just fucking story telling that makes you actually think! ? I miss the pre digital seventies .. So much. Great filmaking, my top 5. And great explanations and appreciation of craft on your part. I was a non union alternative music and film lighting tech in the 80s and 90s. Most of all I miss people who are willing to read, think, and talk. Honestly, for themselves. Thank you
This is incredible. Well done and welcome back!
This was an all-around very well done video my guy
Props, you've won my subscription
one of my all time favourite films, thank you for doing a video on it
Favorite film, hands down. Really excellent video, man. Also I think jasper is the guy I would pick if I could have lunch with any fictional character.
Dude you're sooooo underrated, big thanks I adore this movie, I watch it a lot cause it speaks to me a great deal because I live in Syria, you got a new fan I'll start watching all of your videos, keep going 💙
I feel like you could do an entire episode on the work of Roger Deakins.
sad face
sad face?
>new upload of Movies I Love
*happy face*
I cried at the end.
Please continue to make these, we've waited too long!
"I don't want to turn my video into a commentary track"
...
But why ? T.T *wishing so much you would*
Content does matter, but as I get older as a cinemaphile, form matters more. But the perfect mixture of both can make themes relevant and potent
Its November 12, 2018 and this so closely reflects America right now I want to cry. Replace the bombs with shootings and...this is America.
Hugs from Canada
just found your channel. refreshing. nice to find someone talking about good movies. Hope you keep making videos!
You got so much out of the movie that I couldn't articulate, or fully notice.
Very happy to see your latest entry! Keep it up!
This movie is an epiphany.
So happy you are back
Would LOVE to hear your thoughts on the following films:
Once Upon A Time In America
Love Exposure
The Thing
City Of God
The Thin Red Line
Tarkovsky's 'The Mirror'
Barry Lyndon
Mulholland Drive
Vivre Sa Vie
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
Haven't seen
Haven't seen
Haven't seen, but... I mean, I have to at some point, right?
Love it, and have been tossing it around as my first non-English entry to this series
Haven't seen it, but will at some point I'm sure
Only Tarkovsky I've seen are Stalker (love it) and Rublev (need to see again)
I just bought the Criterion blu-ray for Barry Lyndon, but that's one of Kubrick's I haven't gotten to yet
Mulholland Dr is quickly becoming a favorite; the more I watch it the more I find to love about it
Haven't seen
LOVE Eternal Sunshine, and it'll get it's own video someday (as will Mulholland, probably)
Really solid work. Thanks!
18:43
You talk of prescience
England is now using bexhill as a refugee camp.....literally.....
Awesome Video dude BUT. IT'S C - U - A - R - O - N (pronounced Q U A R O N) not Coron.... ;)
You have good taste my friend
Absolute class
My favorite movie of all time
I completely agree with your definition of 'relevancy'. Film is so often used as a tool of political manipulation, when it is an emotional one.
Love you channel! Really wish you'd post more
I felt the symbolism with the animals was in some respects how human beings replace children with pets to fill that void for providing and nurturing
This film bombed at the box office.
Relevant indeed.
Perhaps the most relevant film for our world. As Mark Fisher wrote "(it) cries out for a cultural reading".
It's the culture we live in *right now*
Nostalgia and pastiche. It's about why no "new babies" (cultural invention) are being born.
It's not really about terrorism or migration.
It's about why "it is easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine an end to capitalism" (attributed to Jameson & Zizek).
one of the best movies ever made imo up there with there will be blood
For some asian movies, that you might want to watch: oldboy, love exposure, confessions, lady vengeance, the man from nowhere, the good the bad the weird, city of life and death, re-cycle, everything from kurosawa. You ever watched some anime? Like ghost in the shell, akira, princess mononoke?
An excellent review of an excellent movie.
I hope so too.
You should have your full commentary track in Children of Men as an offering on Patreon, so we can play it alongside the movie
HES BACK
I love your videos and this one in particular but when you referenced relevance in terms of pointed social commentary was that as a negative to Do the Right Thing?
That's not a particularly subtle film, but I think it's a masterpiece. Do you not share that same opinion?
Those 3 elements!!
Amazing video
Great review man.
I love the book!!
I think the animals are put in the movie on the place from the children. Normally there would be children where now are dogs.
there are actually several cuts in the car sequence it's not a single take
I was gettin' use to frolly
My mom doesn’t watch a lot of movies and really doesn’t have a taste for gore so I told her to cover her eyes during those first 30 seconds lol
Theo is a action heros in flip flops in this movie, but he loses one of his flip flops in the fight with syd... Theo run in bare foot and cut his foot because he has juste one flip flop on his feet. He is the best !
Have you seen Fast & Furious 8?
I think the last Fast/Furious movie I saw was the second one. Not out of principle or anything, just haven't found time for them. I hear 5-8 are excellent action movies.
Theyre still crap, no matter how good the action is. Mad Max is an action movie done right. FF is not.
Movies I Love (and so can you) Are you going to review this year's Best Picture contenders? Call Me By Your Name is, in my opinion, one of the top three best movies of this decade.
Theo are in flip flops and he loses a flip flops in the corridor but à fight with syd. Theo take the gun and syd punch him, theo in the floor, he get up and the flip flop going, theo want run but he cant, he Said: hoo fuck flip flops, he loses the sandal, shy fly in the corridor. Theo has juste one flip flop on his feet and he cut his bare foot outside.
Things happenig these days, I can't even watch this, let alone the movie.
You should because this beautiful film is not a lecture but an observation of what could be. It really is extraordinary.
You should review Alpha Dog.
Do you no5 remember 9/11 people went to work on that day as well. The points you make about "storytelling" are superficial i.e. anyone can see this and get what it implies that isn't hard.
You are purely retelling exactly what transpire in the film plot point to plot point. You think your breaking the film down but your merely doing what Wikipedia does.... you are not looking pass the images on the screen to determine what the director wants us to learn.
What is the director saying about the world, why is the director saying this and does he offer his insight into the issue by using the plot points you talk about in passing.
what was the movie shown of the five people talking when you were discussing reshooting dialougue? right before the shawshank part
WHIPLASH (2014) !!!
Ok so top five favorite movies?
Doesn’t need a warning.
I cried like a bitch!
While I enjoy your story analysis of some of my favorite films, I find your understanding of the basics to be shallow. Lenses, lighting, sound and editing techniques are complicated than story structure. Most of the long takes in CoM use hidden edits. I highly recommend a video called Fake Long Takes on RUclips. After you watch it, you'll see the edits on CoM. That being said, keep up the good work.Thanks.
wait isnt this a reupload
theo is a christ figure. explains the animals and the sandals
Onto dr strangelove!
Your so limited in your perceptions of film that you think the easily derive plot is the meaning of the film lol when the subtext/meta commentary i.e. the things the director shows yous
(Show do not tell) are literally metaphors that require knowledge to break down .
You don't have the knowledge to break down what is going on is the film in a meta level. What is the film soppose to make you feel about what ?
If you think the message of Children of Men is "pollution is bad...." then there's really nothing more to say to you because pollution is objectively bad and we don't need a film who messages is that. You cam grab onto that thread line but it shows the limited ability to comprehend beyond what you can see.
What you don't see makes up far more of our reality then what we do see. The idea that the meaning of a film is purely derived from plot points would make films so bland that no one would have the need to see them after reading the plot, it's the fact that the film is so much more then the plot you see on screen is the reason why people need to see films for themselves as else they are not getting the experience the director wanted/created. You end up getting a opinion piece that just tells you the plot the most basic thing in films lol
L
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Gshot not needed XD
Watched this film & wished our government was more like the government in the film.
Why so l8,m8?
Nice comments but, stop with using dirty language!!!!
Stop saying G....D..... Degardetes you...
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Now, I will preface by saying I am pro-life i.e. anti-abortion... I do not mean to be political, here, but it is somewhat difficult when the movie has some political undertones. I did not think about abortion once until the director's quote at the end of this video regarding hope. We as a society can easily do away with children's voices as the character, Miriam wonderfully links with despair. I wonder if our world's pro-abortion policies are linked with people's lack of hope and belief in a higher power? An interesting question that came to me...
You are so pretentious.... objectective things can't be your subjective opinion. And maybe you just learned that how a story is told is just as if not more important then thr story itself shows you have never taken a class in cinema as this is the very first thing that get stated.
I hate people portraying objective ideas as their opinion lol
This film story is about Humanity losing their right to reproduce.
The meta commentary i.e. what the director wants you to learn from the story being told is why you look at how the story is told. Agian these are objective facts and I'm not stating them as if " I discovered this knowledge from years of watching movies" ... I know this because that is the premise of any film to impart a idea/perspective thru storytelling.
The issue is you have missed the entire point of the film. The point of the film is to what happens with the idea of "subplus" or more then what is needed. Industrialization made it so thousands of aminals and humans can live in these dense population centers, sometime only really achieved over the last 100 years. The effects of the current way of living is totally unknown. Humans have lived this long about 1900 years without mass industrialization thus we know can survive without it. We don't know if we can survive with it indefinitely. This film shows what the director images will happen if this way of life the idea of surplus isn't reformed. Just Mad Cow disease was birthed from feeding aminals to themselves and thru sheltering 1000s of them together.
I just hate someone trying to say "in my opinion the film means this" when there's no opinion about it if you have taken a cinema class
Honestly the show The Leftovers is a better version of Children Of Men, with similar themes.