Children of Men

Has anyone else seen this movie? I just paid $3.95 On Demand for this... I am still in shock at the entire movie. I fast forwarded through the credits to make sure it was actually over.

There was no happy part really. And the ending just arrives at an awkward moment- sudden and unsatisfying. What the heck?

never heard of it.. whats it about?

It is about the "future," where all women are infertile (though this goes unexplained). No children have been born for about two decades, and finally a women is pregnant and it is a series of bloodbaths throughout the entire film between "The Uprising" and a British equivalent of The Nazi Regime.

It is almost a tale where every character you begin to not necessarily like, but just like enough, dies. And then it ends. Credits roll. Then frantically search the TV guide to find something to get it out of your head.

I thought it was a depressing movie. I have the book, but haven't read it, although I've heard it was way better than the movie.

Was in on tv or did you rent?

got mine from netflix

I just "rented" in from my digital cable provider. It was depressing!!

I thought the same.  Awful, depressing, never watching it again.

I agree, one of the worst movies I have ever seen............very depressing.

I actually really, really liked it.  I thought the cinematography was quite impressive, and the whole color/feel of it was very good.  It's a story that's been done a few times before, so I wasn't expecting it to be as different a take as it was.

I loved this movie so much. It was one of my favorites of all time. The director created a beautiful, grim world that was frightingly realistic. One of the things that got me was how plausible the world in the movie was.

But the movie isn't supposed to be happy. It's about a distopia, and some guy that gets thrown in the middle of some political shitstorm and all he cares about is saving this pregant woman who may be the hope for the future.

A lot of people claimed that the lack of background/complete resolution at the end about what is happening in the film is a "plot hole", but the movie is really just about theo. Think of how many scenes there are without theo. Very few, right? It starts with theo in the coffee, and it ends with theo as he died.

Anyways, yes this film is depressing. But it's extremely good.

p.s. i have a friend who read the book and she said it's the same.

If you can get past the shocking realness of it all (does anyone think this ISN'T what current warfare is like??) it is well worth watching, and thinking about.  It's a movie about the human condition, and redemption.  The book was worth reading as well, and it was really interesting how they changed it to fit current times (the book was written a while ago).  If you do the book club thing I would recommend contrasting Children of Men with The Handmaid's Tale, both frighteningly possible future dystopias.

Though prepare to be depressed.

I have yet to see the entire movie.  I took my husband on a date to see it and it made me physically sick.  The filming was all over the place for artistic reasons and it gave me motion sickness.  (No I was not and am not pregnant.).  I may try to rent it to see if it does the same thing to me on a TV screen.  Did anyone else have this happen to them?

good movie...not depressing for me, i prefer to think he only passed out at the end...

I've seen the movie and I can't remember much of It but I did like It. Just because a movie is depressing and showing something negative doesn't make It awful, you know?

It was depressing and made me want to go out and procreate as soon as possible....but I thought overall it was a very good movie.

I liked it.

It really made me think about a lot of things I take for granted...

:)

I loved that movie.

It was worth watching if only for the 10 minutes long sequence where Clive Owen has to cross a busy battlefield without any cut in the scene.

It wasn't so much the fact that it was depressing that made it a one-time only movie for me. It was definitely the lack of resolution in the end. If you are going to have a depressing "day in the life of" type movie, it should at least have some kind of ending- not jut a chopped scene that literally looks like a mistake! That is my opinion, of course, but I think that endings should be thought through more carefully... there is a lot that the director could have done to fix that ending with even 10 more seconds or just a better fade to the credits!

I thought it was one of the best movies I've seen in the past few years. The cinematography is brilliant and the future setting is done better than pretty much any other movie that takes place in the future (examples: cars look a little different, but not really, and monitors are thinner).

As per it being depressing, I guess it could be, but both mother and child are saved in the end, which was the whole point. I would consider that to be a somewhat happy ending. On that, I thought the ending was good, as the story is told from Theo's perspective; it can't continue if he isn't there. It cuts-out because that's when Theo finally cuts-out; he succeeded and thus has no reason to continue.

In relation to the book, I think it was as good as the book, largely because the book is very, very different. The overall plot is the same, and some of the characters and scenes are similar, but that's it.