The beauty is the contrast between the british clinical modern society, laced with the posh class system, juxtaposed against the absolute degradation of society. This one scene tells you 8% of all you need to know is going on. People, even inner city london people, are living in quarters close to slums, there is a tenuous middle class of professionals like Theo who live too close to that slum for comfort, and then there's the military creating a ring of steel around the elite along the parade. Even the utility of the "ark" is a joke. WHy preserve art if there will be no humans in 50 years time to enjoy it? It's just another bit of ego stroking and distraction.
@@joeking5679 It's interesting because the year after this we got There Will Be Blood, and the next year No Country For Old Men, which are two of the best films of the century imo(as is this one).
1:40 "We couldn't save La Pieta, smashed up before we got there!" This is a world with no children, and the statue of a mother holding her dead son (Jesus) is bound to be broken out of anger for what is haooening in the story.
@@joekreissl4499 Ir is. Same way Gattaca is also one of the best sci-fis. Science fiction doesn't need to be as robust as Star trek levels of world changing. It can be at the level of gattaca, gene altering/selection, and CoM, humans have seemingly lost the ability to reproduce.
It’s most definitely apocryphal, but I love the story of when a Nazi soldier came into Picasso’s studio, saw it and asked him if he made it, and his response was “No, you did.” It’s too kitschy not to love
This is an amazing film. I loved every minute. Pigs over Battersea Power Station. Homage to Pink Floyrd and the symbolisation of these people having the wealth and power.
Love how every time I see this scene I notice little details. This time it's the Banksy at 1:05. The juxtaposition of the cops kissing next to the armed guard is too good.
Holy Shit! I thought this was a joke comment. That you were just saying how "Floyd like" the scene looks and the iconic smoke stacks look like the Animals cover...BUT THERE ACTUALLY IS IN FACT A GIANT FLOATING FUCKING PIG!!! This is way better than playing the White Album backwards. Too cool! How the hell did you catch that?!?!? Edit: So I didn’t watch past about the 1 minute mark because I was only interested in the King Crimson song. But I watched it again and finally saw the whole thing. Duh. It’s still very cool. And this is literally the cover of the Animals album. I don’t live in London so I never knew where that picture came from. And google didn’t exist in 1977.
Pink Floyd had this blimp at one of their concerts way back when. This rich guy is obviously a collector ( he has Michelangelo's David after all ) ..... so he must have somehow obtained it... maybe from Roger Waters?
Did anyone notice the Picasso painting on the wall. That painting depicts the bombing and massacre of a town named Guernica in Northern Spain. This was done by Fascists during the Spanish Civil War. The bombing was ordered by Francisco Franco to quash the resistance in that region and to gain control over it. The bombing mission was meant to destroy military targets but it ended in tragedy as many civilians were blown up and killed during the attack. If you can see, the figures in the painting are the townsfolk who were bombed- disfigured, mangled, mixed-up and distorted in the violence. I think it was nice addition to the scene in the sense that it gives a feeling of foreboding, an eerie retelling of the theme of government trying to control people during times of war and crisis. To use any means necessary to "keep the peace" and enforce its ideology, laws and policies on the population.
My fan theory is that Alex was in prison or involved with gang activity hence the street/prison tattoos on his hand and neck. He has a deep scare on his face which to me resembles a bullet wound, perhaps he was a spoiled powerful rich kid with no real direction or purpose in life and took pleasure in criminal life and violent behavior. Since his dad is so powerful he usually always gets out of legal trouble somehow. Maybe he eventually got shot in the face and became mentally or physically disabled from it. Now he lives a life of house arrest and probation, maybe apart of his sentencing is to have a mandatory prescription to a mood balancer kinda like future riddaline but with no FDA oversight. No he lives docile life heavily medicated to suppress his violent behavior as hence why Nigile easily freaked out when his son wasn’t complying to his mandatory meds.
that leap through chaos to elegance was perfect. outside, people were out-louding that infertility is punishment of the god. but inside, everything was such on a daily basis for the wealthy ones, as if there is nothing wrong with the world. every social disaster concern poor ones rather than high society. and social-economic circumstances create huge differences on aspects for life. fantastic. so much actuality through futuristic perspective.
I feel that in that scene the rich we're living the last days with all the flamboyance and excess they could, daily parades in full dress uniform, frolicking in the park with exotic pets, etc.
This scene by itself could have been the basis for an entire film showing the end of civilization and how the wealthiest of the world would remain in denial, lest their extreme comfort be interrupted. In fact, there are many stories which combine these elements already. Check the Old Testament of the christian bible, where the only equalizing force that can affect the wealthy and powerful is a reticent god who appears only sporadically. That's how we know he is fiction, created to assuage the fears of destitution for the masses.
Theo's negging in this film is really intelligently wrought. Watch thru and pay attention to the several times he says harmless little things that all the same totally undermine the posture of the character hes talking to. It's very telling about his character. He gets thru (almost) the entire film without physically harming anyone. Hes not an action hero, hes no warrior. Hes a rogue. Skates through the entire film by the tip of his tongue and stealth.
RIP Ian McDonald, ("Military band of the british army", "Giles, Giles and Fripp", "King Crimson", "In the court of the crimson king", 1969 etc.), alto sax player and "Foreigner" co-founder (75) ;-( Ian also performed as a session saxist on "T. Rex"’s classic 1971 album, "Electric warrior" and later reunited with part of the original Crimson lineup as a member of the "21st century schizoid cand", his final major project was the rootsy rock band "Honey West", King Crimson did also two "John Peel sessions" (65, d. 2004) in 1969, King Crimson was sampled by many alternative bands, but also hip hop artists, f.i. by Kanye West, Phat Kat, Pharaoe Monch, Gang Starr, Sagopa Kajmer, The Hive, Moving Strings and Crimson Jazz Trio etc. !
@IntrepidTit One of the very best. He was critically important to the first incarnation of KC, and was instrumental in setting the tone that the band would carry forward for the next 52+ years.
From a truly visionary director. I love the relationship of the sounds with the KC track, the tuctuc exhaust mimics the tom toms on the drum kit, the screech of the car tyres as he arrives fits with the track, the band on the mall, .... its brilliant
Revelation of the Method. Great movie and fantastic scene. I think of it often as the divide between the haves and have nots is widening at a tremendous pace. Reminds me of me and my brother. Those that “don’t think about it” are rewarded.
I love the use of contrast in this scene or scenes... we see the common people... all crowded together in a state of distress. Then Clive Owen is driven out to the country, where it's isolated. Then into this guys mansion... nothing but space... any food or drink he wants... plunder. Really shows how one person with power and money lives like an alien compared with the masses.
Nice analysis, but it's worth pointing out that the 'mansion' in this scene is actually supposed to be the 'Ark of Arts', a refurbished (and digitally enhanced) Battersea Power Station - still very much within London, and only two or three miles from the street that we first see Theo being driven down. You get the impression that we're moving out into the country just because the route goes past some of London's large parks. At the time of filming, Battersea Power Station was just a shell, having been decommissioned and left to rot for decades - but that whole area has now been redeveloped and the restored Power Station will be host to a campus, shops, events venue and roof gardens.
It's meant to be within a few km's of the masses you just saw. You saw that military blockade? That's them separating the elite from the plebs. Theo is meant to work for some government ministry, likely getting the job due to his connections. Heh as relatives inside the elite world, but he lives with everyone else, albeit a bit better than most.
YES! yes. Irish Wolfhounds. great dogs. >>> isn't it oddly comforting to read strangers' comments about details you yourself noticed [like 'la guernica' and the pig]
If only the world today realizes the relative impact of this epic moment in cinematic history has on the future shall it become reality or remain fiction
@@NiekKuijpers Or the rise of nationalists like yourself pretending like some religion is responsible, not late stage capitalism taking effect, failures in our systems, overzealous conservative dogma trying to create a more and more oppressive world for people of any identity. Inshallah, comrade. The death of the west comes with putting trans women in video games, and the more there are, the more evil communism there is.
@@NiekKuijpers You are literally an idiot. You think ISLAM is responsible for the collapse of an already collapsing West? This has been a LONG time coming, FAR predating the refugee crisis. Capitalism has been consuming itself for over a century, and we're approaching a point where Capitalism can no longer adapt to its own over consumption. And you think this is bad? Climate change is set to cause the greatest refugee crisis this world has ever seen, with 150 MILLION climate refugees expected by 2050. You think Islam caused that too?
I saw this movie for the first time a few years back, and I thought my music on my phone went off during this scene. It blew me away! I loved this and the Animals tribute in the next scene.
@@siccolindsay610 ah yes, all that intellect that made you reach the conclusion that humanity that 40 years came closer to nuclear war than it is today, it's close to some kind of extinction because of infertility, and according to your words "we're almost there". While more humans are giving birth than ever before. Genius level intellect right there. Just a spoiled brat who thinks their time is the ultimate/penultimate time and has no knowledge of history.
You know, there are hundreds of references to more mainstream, blockbuster, sci-fi fare like Inception, and Children of Men is still far far superior in tackling it's subject matter. It's the end of the world in slow motion. It's all of humanity dying from cancer all at once. It's the Radiohead of thought-provoking sci-fi.
In addition to Greg Lake's inspiring voice and Fripp's mellotron playing in the background, you can also see that the Battersea Power Station has a giant pig floatie near its smokestacks. This is the closest any apocalyptic film has ever gotten to being a prog rock record.
First time hearing this song on the movie when it first camr out and fell in love with it. Its like a lonley bard singing the demise of a court jester while everyone dies around hin.
I think they could have easily fit in Epitaph in the movie as well. The wall on which the prophets wrote Is cracking at the seams. Upon the instruments of death The sunlight brightly gleams. When every man is torn apart With nightmares and with dreams, Will no one lay the laurel wreath As silence drowns the screams. Between the iron gates of fate, The seeds of time were sown, And watered by the deeds of those Who know and who are known; Knowledge is a deadly friend When no one sets the rules. The fate of all mankind I see Is in the hands of fools. Confusion will be my epitaph. As I crawl a cracked and broken path If we make it we can all sit back And laugh. But I fear tomorrow I'll be crying, Yes I fear tomorrow I'll be crying.
A very significant film in the field of dystopia and the genre of science fiction that shows a demonstration of the power of the rich and privileged living in the intoxication of great food of wine and amazing music in this case King Crimson where Brian Eno also performed and the music is great and underscores the subverted and dysfunctional world of the reign of terror and insecurity, as already shown by Fritz Lang Film Metropolis or Blade Runner of 1982, which also belong to this genre and also the meaning show scum and human scum in coexistence with each other
London, The Court of the Crimson King, Battersea and the flying pig, my favorie animal - Zebra. All of this in one scene, It seems like I need to watch this movie.
Anyone ever notice how this film mirrors lord of the flies? takes place on island with no hope of procreation or future, emphasis on othering processes, hope comes in the form of a boat in the end. most notably lord of the flies being beelzebub aka the crimson king. have searched online and never found any mention of the two titles together
does anyone know which song it switches to after COTCK? the opera ish one im writing a paper about the film and i feel like there could be something there hehe
Its April 9th, 2022 and there have been scientific backed, internet articles published about the presence of micoplastics in the human body. Scientists don't know what the long term affects are with microplastics being present in every part of our body but Im sure its NOT good.. 😳😬😥
I guess I've got to watch this movie. I'm a big fan of "On The Beach" not only the book by Nevil Shute, but the old black and white movie, and the newer post-internet movie. I suspect this movie is influenced by that story and two movies. Unfortunately I'm in "Silicon Valley" where internet access sucks unless you're rich, so the easiest way for me to see movies is to buy them on DVD. Which is hard to do because ... non-rich.
This movie is the most accurate view of the future ever conceived. We haven’t fully reached it yet, but we are juuuuuust about there. When the people ask for Quietus, then, you will know.
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The worldbuilding in this movie was and will always be impeccable.
I thought back then they could just keep making movies like this, boy was I wrong.
I just finished watching a vinesauce clip then watched this clip and saw your comment which made me laugh
The beauty is the contrast between the british clinical modern society, laced with the posh class system, juxtaposed against the absolute degradation of society.
This one scene tells you 8% of all you need to know is going on. People, even inner city london people, are living in quarters close to slums, there is a tenuous middle class of professionals like Theo who live too close to that slum for comfort, and then there's the military creating a ring of steel around the elite along the parade.
Even the utility of the "ark" is a joke. WHy preserve art if there will be no humans in 50 years time to enjoy it? It's just another bit of ego stroking and distraction.
@@joeking5679 It's interesting because the year after this we got There Will Be Blood, and the next year No Country For Old Men, which are two of the best films of the century imo(as is this one).
Thank god for this movie
1:40 "We couldn't save La Pieta, smashed up before we got there!" This is a world with no children, and the statue of a mother holding her dead son (Jesus) is bound to be broken out of anger for what is haooening in the story.
Good insight
God I hope that was intentional
Pretty sure there's a scene of a woman holding her dead son later in the film that's very similar to it too
Some person smashed the Pieta in the early 70s. Screamed "I am Jesus Christ"! Mental patient, I vaguely remember?
I guess the fact that he was able to salvage Guernica means there isn't much left of the U.N. anymore. I guess that's true even outside the movie.
WE will never get a better sci-fi dystopian film, ever.
its not really sci-fi
@@joekreissl4499 Ir is. Same way Gattaca is also one of the best sci-fis.
Science fiction doesn't need to be as robust as Star trek levels of world changing.
It can be at the level of gattaca, gene altering/selection, and CoM, humans have seemingly lost the ability to reproduce.
@@elyastoohey6621 yeah but it's left ambiguous
@@joekreissl4499 It's science fiction. Deal with it.
@@zippymufo9765 Ok???
This is still one of my all time favorite movies. The music, to the dystopian/apocalyptic plot, to the cinematography, this movie is just fantastic.
The story was so moving
This movie is next-NEXT level....one of my top 5....so well done....
Five years to go! (It's set in 2027.)
Totally
Feels eerie watching it now buddy. I don't know why but it seems like our direction rn
"I just don't think about it.".
Wise words when staring into the abyss.
Or doom-scrolling on my phone.
I got a 50p copy of this film at a charity shop, whoever gave that film up thank you from me.
having Guernica as the backdrop for a dining table
yes, along with brilliant filmography, casting and selection of this KC piece...a detail that counted towards the movie's perfection
Not to mention the Pink Floyd pig.
It’s most definitely apocryphal, but I love the story of when a Nazi soldier came into Picasso’s studio, saw it and asked him if he made it, and his response was “No, you did.” It’s too kitschy not to love
My heart leaped when this song played in this scene. There's power in this music...
Perfect synchronization between lyrics and scenes.
Whenever I think of great dystopian movies, Children of Men always comes to mind. Great opening scene.
This is an amazing film. I loved every minute. Pigs over Battersea Power Station. Homage to Pink Floyrd and the symbolisation of these people having the wealth and power.
I just noticed how old the chauffeur is. I guess there is no retirement in this world so this dude is gonna keep on driving until he drops dead
no retirement but free "quietus" kits for the elderly to self euthanize and stop being a burden on the aging population 😬
I mean... there is no retirement TODAY... so... yeah.
Love how every time I see this scene I notice little details. This time it's the Banksy at 1:05. The juxtaposition of the cops kissing next to the armed guard is too good.
That's extremely subtle (edit: and agreed it's clever). I've only watched this half a dozen times, the details aren't jumping out to me yet.
just saw it for the first time....also in the beginning the ad: "Avoiding fertility tests is a crime"
Did I see a pig floating above that that re-purposed Battersea Station?
llenin6767 is holy shit, there is a pig. Tipping the hat to Floyd and crimson in one scene.
Holy Shit! I thought this was a joke comment. That you were just saying how "Floyd like" the scene looks and the iconic smoke stacks look like the Animals cover...BUT THERE ACTUALLY IS IN FACT A GIANT FLOATING FUCKING PIG!!! This is way better than playing the White Album backwards. Too cool! How the hell did you catch that?!?!?
Edit: So I didn’t watch past about the 1 minute mark because I was only interested in the King Crimson song. But I watched it again and finally saw the whole thing. Duh. It’s still very cool. And this is literally the cover of the Animals album. I don’t live in London so I never knew where that picture came from. And google didn’t exist in 1977.
@@subversion6066 This whole movie is really cool like that, in my opinion it's one of the better movies to come out in recent years.
Is the floating Donald Trump Baby balloon redesigned... a premonition!
Pink Floyd had this blimp at one of their concerts way back when. This rich guy is obviously a collector ( he has Michelangelo's David after all ) ..... so he must have somehow obtained it... maybe from Roger Waters?
I was already liking the movie as I was watching it. But when KC entered in the scene, the movie went from good to classic in my book.
words out of my mouth!
Cool word can come out of mostly everyone’s mouth
Who?
@@johnmazzoni487 King Crimson the band playing
Oh be quiet dude. It's just a song man.
Emmanuel Lubezki cinematographer (3 Oscars), Alfonso Cuaron director (4 Oscars). This is an outstanding film that stays with you.
Did anyone notice the Picasso painting on the wall. That painting depicts the bombing and massacre of a town named Guernica in Northern Spain. This was done by Fascists during the Spanish Civil War. The bombing was ordered by Francisco Franco to quash the resistance in that region and to gain control over it. The bombing mission was meant to destroy military targets but it ended in tragedy as many civilians were blown up and killed during the attack. If you can see, the figures in the painting are the townsfolk who were bombed- disfigured, mangled, mixed-up and distorted in the violence. I think it was nice addition to the scene in the sense that it gives a feeling of foreboding, an eerie retelling of the theme of government trying to control people during times of war and crisis. To use any means necessary to "keep the peace" and enforce its ideology, laws and policies on the population.
Incredible film. So underappreciated.
Every scene is crafted to deliver
your accurate evaluation, concise... almost a haiku!
0:28
guy has sign that says ¨DOOM IS ETERNAL¨
they fucking predicted it
The game ?
@@MAYHAM-ze8bo yeah
Haha
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My fan theory is that Alex was in prison or involved with gang activity hence the street/prison tattoos on his hand and neck. He has a deep scare on his face which to me resembles a bullet wound, perhaps he was a spoiled powerful rich kid with no real direction or purpose in life and took pleasure in criminal life and violent behavior. Since his dad is so powerful he usually always gets out of legal trouble somehow. Maybe he eventually got shot in the face and became mentally or physically disabled from it. Now he lives a life of house arrest and probation, maybe apart of his sentencing is to have a mandatory prescription to a mood balancer kinda like future riddaline but with no FDA oversight. No he lives docile life heavily medicated to suppress his violent behavior as hence why Nigile easily freaked out when his son wasn’t complying to his mandatory meds.
Riddalin? You mean risperidone? Your theory does make sense though and definitely fits in with the dark themes.
Yeah, he’s based on Chet Hanks.
I always wondered why Alex looked like that or what he’s was doing but definitely this makes perfect sense!
Yeah he likely ran with all the other angry youth. Only his position meant he wasn't going to be treated as badly as them.
So he is Alex DeLarge (Whose name was probably taken for the character), but rich and with caring parents.
Saw this on a couple doses and man this movie hits
that leap through chaos to elegance was perfect. outside, people were out-louding that infertility is punishment of the god. but inside, everything was such on a daily basis for the wealthy ones, as if there is nothing wrong with the world. every social disaster concern poor ones rather than high society. and social-economic circumstances create huge differences on aspects for life. fantastic. so much actuality through futuristic perspective.
I feel that in that scene the rich we're living the last days with all the flamboyance and excess they could, daily parades in full dress uniform, frolicking in the park with exotic pets, etc.
Just like now! LOL. . . . . .
This scene by itself could have been the basis for an entire film showing the end of civilization and how the wealthiest of the world would remain in denial, lest their extreme comfort be interrupted.
In fact, there are many stories which combine these elements already.
Check the Old Testament of the christian bible, where the only equalizing force that can affect the wealthy and powerful is a reticent god who appears only sporadically.
That's how we know he is fiction, created to assuage the fears of destitution for the masses.
"You've got something in your teeth."
Theo's negging in this film is really intelligently wrought. Watch thru and pay attention to the several times he says harmless little things that all the same totally undermine the posture of the character hes talking to. It's very telling about his character. He gets thru (almost) the entire film without physically harming anyone. Hes not an action hero, hes no warrior. Hes a rogue. Skates through the entire film by the tip of his tongue and stealth.
"Jeez, your breath stinks."
@@lazyatthedisco It was Charlie Hunnam by the way, i didn't see Green Street Hooligans at that time.
That's a great take on it, never thought about it like that.. Totally accurate
Amazing assessment
Look at 00:59 ! There is a pig from Pink Floyd Animals album above the chimneys!
the pig from Pink Floyd's Animals LP outside of the window ! BRILLIANT
RIP Ian McDonald, ("Military band of the british army", "Giles, Giles and Fripp", "King Crimson", "In the court of the crimson king", 1969 etc.), alto sax player and "Foreigner" co-founder (75) ;-( Ian also performed as a session saxist on "T. Rex"’s classic 1971 album, "Electric warrior" and later reunited with part of the original Crimson lineup as a member of the "21st century schizoid cand", his final major project was the rootsy rock band "Honey West", King Crimson did also two "John Peel sessions" (65, d. 2004) in 1969, King Crimson was sampled by many alternative bands, but also hip hop artists, f.i. by Kanye West, Phat Kat, Pharaoe Monch, Gang Starr, Sagopa Kajmer, The Hive, Moving Strings and Crimson Jazz Trio etc. !
@IntrepidTit One of the very best. He was critically important to the first incarnation of KC, and was instrumental in setting the tone that the band would carry forward for the next 52+ years.
From a truly visionary director. I love the relationship of the sounds with the KC track, the tuctuc exhaust mimics the tom toms on the drum kit, the screech of the car tyres as he arrives fits with the track, the band on the mall, .... its brilliant
i picked up on most commenters' details above - but yours just means i'm gonna watch this movie again tonight. thank you
Meh, he made this movie and that's it. This is his only movie I really dig.
@@jeanjacqueslundi3502alfonso cuarón is interesting and big director my 4 favorite movie was directed by alfo cuarón
One of many reasons it wants rewatching and then again!
This film blew my mind when I first saw it on the DVD at my friend's house in 2007.
I can honestly admit I cried on the scene where they are coming out from the building and the baby starts crying and all the soldiers kneels
I went into this movie cold in the theaters having no idea what it was. Blown away.
The way things are going at the moment, coming to a future near you very soon.
"Dr Swan believes that the rapidly decreasing fertility rate means that most men will be unable to produce viable sperm by 2045." 😳
@@MYCUTIEMARKISAGUN Context?
Future?! King Crimson sees the future! This a JoJo reference!
Worse
Revelation of the Method. Great movie and fantastic scene. I think of it often as the divide between the haves and have nots is widening at a tremendous pace. Reminds me of me and my brother. Those that “don’t think about it” are rewarded.
I love the use of contrast in this scene or scenes... we see the common people... all crowded together in a state of distress.
Then Clive Owen is driven out to the country, where it's isolated. Then into this guys mansion... nothing but space... any food or drink he wants... plunder.
Really shows how one person with power and money lives like an alien compared with the masses.
Nice analysis, but it's worth pointing out that the 'mansion' in this scene is actually supposed to be the 'Ark of Arts', a refurbished (and digitally enhanced) Battersea Power Station - still very much within London, and only two or three miles from the street that we first see Theo being driven down. You get the impression that we're moving out into the country just because the route goes past some of London's large parks.
At the time of filming, Battersea Power Station was just a shell, having been decommissioned and left to rot for decades - but that whole area has now been redeveloped and the restored Power Station will be host to a campus, shops, events venue and roof gardens.
It's meant to be within a few km's of the masses you just saw. You saw that military blockade? That's them separating the elite from the plebs. Theo is meant to work for some government ministry, likely getting the job due to his connections. Heh as relatives inside the elite world, but he lives with everyone else, albeit a bit better than most.
I like the Irish Wolfhounds that protect the satue. great dogs.
YES! yes. Irish Wolfhounds. great dogs. >>> isn't it oddly comforting to read strangers' comments about details you yourself noticed [like 'la guernica' and the pig]
This is one of the most effective song choices for a scene in film history
I can’t be the only one that would pay to see a prequel with Nigel and a SAS detail trying to get the Pieta
If only the world today realizes the relative impact of this epic moment in cinematic history has on the future shall it become reality or remain fiction
Love how his brother bought the property to make into an album cover as a home.
I swear 2020 is starting to look more and more like this movie...
Just wait until the Covid vaccine is released. It'll make this look like child's play.
The islamisation of the west is playing a big part. I have nothing against muslims, just stating a fact.
@@NiekKuijpers Or the rise of nationalists like yourself pretending like some religion is responsible, not late stage capitalism taking effect, failures in our systems, overzealous conservative dogma trying to create a more and more oppressive world for people of any identity.
Inshallah, comrade. The death of the west comes with putting trans women in video games, and the more there are, the more evil communism there is.
@@NiekKuijpers You are literally an idiot. You think ISLAM is responsible for the collapse of an already collapsing West? This has been a LONG time coming, FAR predating the refugee crisis. Capitalism has been consuming itself for over a century, and we're approaching a point where Capitalism can no longer adapt to its own over consumption. And you think this is bad? Climate change is set to cause the greatest refugee crisis this world has ever seen, with 150 MILLION climate refugees expected by 2050. You think Islam caused that too?
@@NiekKuijpers It saddens me how someone can watch such a beautiful work of art that is this film and come out completely missing the point.
damn, forgot how this movie was so awesome.
I always thought In The Court of the Crimson King sounded like the score to an apocalypse. Looks like Cuaron took that literally. Great choice
I saw this movie for the first time a few years back, and I thought my music on my phone went off during this scene. It blew me away! I loved this and the Animals tribute in the next scene.
The inflatable pig is a nice bit of foreshadowing, too.
Watching a King Cirmson video with a Pink Floyd reference...
love this film
You know we're almost there, right?
You're just being edgy
@@xristosrizos8406 No it's just you
@@siccolindsay610 don't cut yourself on that edge kid
@@xristosrizos8406 Thank you. Although whatever "edge" you imply is evidently sharper than your intellect.
@@siccolindsay610 ah yes, all that intellect that made you reach the conclusion that humanity that 40 years came closer to nuclear war than it is today, it's close to some kind of extinction because of infertility, and according to your words "we're almost there". While more humans are giving birth than ever before. Genius level intellect right there.
Just a spoiled brat who thinks their time is the ultimate/penultimate time and has no knowledge of history.
Interesting how the song goes from soundtrack to diegetic, seamlessly.
Great movie & great music!
You know, there are hundreds of references to more mainstream, blockbuster, sci-fi fare like Inception, and Children of Men is still far far superior in tackling it's subject matter. It's the end of the world in slow motion. It's all of humanity dying from cancer all at once. It's the Radiohead of thought-provoking sci-fi.
The short-lived series "Y: The Last Man" was only just starting to show the world's degeneration due to phenomena causing the slow end of humanity
One of the most beautiful dashboards in car history
Lol, love how Nigel just keeps on trucking and ultimately is that much further ahead when fertility (by implication) DOES came back at the story’s end
One Baby does not humanity's salvation make.
@@Circa1628 Yes, but the implication is that if she can give birth, so can other women.
Great Animals reference.
To anyone wondering the Opera song that comes on after TCOTCK is War, He Sung, is Toil and Trouble", by G.F. Handel! :D
Appropriate given he's collecting all the art
“See you on the pink side of the floyd” 🎶🎶🎶🎶
my parents took me to see Pink Floyd in Kansas City for the Animals Tour that pig floated around the arena with red lights in the eyes
In addition to Greg Lake's inspiring voice and Fripp's mellotron playing in the background, you can also see that the Battersea Power Station has a giant pig floatie near its smokestacks. This is the closest any apocalyptic film has ever gotten to being a prog rock record.
Did he predict iPad kids man? I’m tripping out
They even called Zeds in the script lol
the first 1.30 minutes of this is movie genius. bravo.
Ah! Bliss!
Great movie, thanks for the post
Remember when these animated, full-colour advertisements on buildings and buses were just the height of sci-fi? And this is from 2006!
4:05, the background pig and chimney stacks are a ode to the Pink Floyd, Animals album cover art.
First time hearing this song on the movie when it first camr out and fell in love with it. Its like a lonley bard singing the demise of a court jester while everyone dies around hin.
@IntrepidTit oh yeah all music is open to interpretation by the Listener's.
Would you like to see Britannia rule again, my friend...all you have to do is follow the worms.
Pink floyd lol
this film was a prophecy
God, I love this movie...
I need to watch this again, it's been a while.
"Alex ......take your pills."
ALEX !! ! ! ! ! !! !!!
One of the great scenes in film history. Right up there with any of the greats.
Those repenters in yellow look very much like Just Stop Oil…
One of my fav scenes
I think they could have easily fit in Epitaph in the movie as well.
The wall on which the prophets wrote
Is cracking at the seams.
Upon the instruments of death
The sunlight brightly gleams.
When every man is torn apart
With nightmares and with dreams,
Will no one lay the laurel wreath
As silence drowns the screams.
Between the iron gates of fate,
The seeds of time were sown,
And watered by the deeds of those
Who know and who are known;
Knowledge is a deadly friend
When no one sets the rules.
The fate of all mankind I see
Is in the hands of fools.
Confusion will be my epitaph.
As I crawl a cracked and broken path
If we make it we can all sit back
And laugh.
But I fear tomorrow I'll be crying,
Yes I fear tomorrow I'll be crying.
Man, i wish they used that instead, one of my favourite songs, but in the Court of the crimson king is so good as well
This movie needs a second part.
A very significant film in the field of dystopia and the genre of science fiction that shows a demonstration of the power of the rich and privileged living in the intoxication of great food of wine and amazing music in this case King Crimson where Brian Eno also performed and the music is great and underscores the subverted and dysfunctional world of the reign of terror and insecurity, as already shown by Fritz Lang Film Metropolis or Blade Runner of 1982, which also belong to this genre and also the meaning show scum and human scum in coexistence with each other
I rewatched this movie halfway through the second lockdown, that's when I realised we were right on track...
@IntrepidTit ah yes, it wasn't the 2 world wars or the cold war that sat on the brink of nuclear war.
NOW we're on the way.
Seriously?
Yet nothing fkin happened at the end of this
This kind of Victorian industrial architecture always has intimidated me 0:59 .
Battersea was started in 1929 (post Victorian) and is art deco in design
@@carmadme you are right
Come to Russia, it's an everyday sight
Pink Floyd - Animals - My favourite album.
I'd say this may be my favourite film too.
5 years from now…we are close to 2027 being the present…so crazy…
Michael in the entrance, Guernica on a kitchen wall and shortly later pigs fly. wealth beyond human understanding
This movie was an insight of things to come
YOU GIVE GOOD DIRECTIONS
Ha, I remember sitting with my guitar/piano and puzzling this song out, off the LP. "Oh, I gotta use big boy chords."
Does anyone Notice the section of the Berlin wall in the back-round as the car drives into the warehouse ?
its not its a banksey piece
Incredible film
Moody blues vibes
My mom had a plastic one in the bathroom,
It was a lamp.
London, The Court of the Crimson King, Battersea and the flying pig, my favorie animal - Zebra.
All of this in one scene,
It seems like I need to watch this movie.
Anyone ever notice how this film mirrors lord of the flies? takes place on island with no hope of procreation or future, emphasis on othering processes, hope comes in the form of a boat in the end. most notably lord of the flies being beelzebub aka the crimson king.
have searched online and never found any mention of the two titles together
I watched this film when I was really young and this scene screamed BRITISH af
This movie is Underrated
Very underrated movie
if 8v ever heard of a soundtrack to apocalypse King Crimson I believe !!
And the Pig floating over battersea from "Animals" Pink Floyd album
Welp! its time to watch children of men again.
Great movie. Makes you wonder about now...... take care everyone.
Kore ga waga king crimson no nouryoku
does anyone know the name of the classic music that plays in the background while Nigel and Theo talk
Goosebumps
In dystopian London one has to drive through St James' Park and along a relocated millennium bridge to reach battersea.
This is an alternate history London, Aaron. Not our London.
Is the shot by the window a reference to Pink Floyd’s animals album cover???
3:35 *ALEX*
does anyone know which song it switches to after COTCK? the opera ish one im writing a paper about the film and i feel like there could be something there hehe
Who would have thought this would be our soon to be future.
Humanity has more babies than ever. Stop being edgy
Ironically in about 100 years this will probably be a reality
I’d say 15+ years max!
Its April 9th, 2022 and there have been scientific backed, internet articles published about the presence of micoplastics in the human body. Scientists don't know what the long term affects are with microplastics being present in every part of our body but Im sure its NOT good.. 😳😬😥
Hopefully not🙃
I guess I've got to watch this movie. I'm a big fan of "On The Beach" not only the book by Nevil Shute, but the old black and white movie, and the newer post-internet movie. I suspect this movie is influenced by that story and two movies. Unfortunately I'm in "Silicon Valley" where internet access sucks unless you're rich, so the easiest way for me to see movies is to buy them on DVD. Which is hard to do because ... non-rich.
Anybody here reminded of current times?
This movie is the most accurate view of the future ever conceived. We haven’t fully reached it yet, but we are juuuuuust about there.
When the people ask for Quietus, then, you will know.
Quietus already exists it's called Dignitas
@IntrepidTit you first, you don't seem like you're mission-critical to humanity.
Go to Canada