Children of Men

This is a great start to my 2007 film-going. I was totally sucked into this film right away and though the journey is a major downer it is very satisfying. The film evokes some of my favorite film moments: the office scenes in Terry Gilliam's "Brazil," combat sequences from a variety of war films, and of course the dying city with a bright advertising life via "Blade Runner." My favorite iconic scene portrayed a dining room with Guernica hanging on the wall and room size window overlooking London with a real life vision of a Pink Floyd album cover. I loved the audacity of this shot matched only by the audacity of Danny Houston's character explaining he didn't care to think about the world falling apart. The bleakness of the film is countered throughout by moments of humor and various well chosen songs. I didn't care that the Tomorrow Project was never fully explained because the journey was all that mattered.
Favorite Moment: The escape from the farmhouse. An amazing sequence in which Theo and Key try to escape from the farmhouse. Filled with tension and made even more tense by the soundtrack of the birds waking up at dawn.
Film #94