hmm
we're just finishing watching Children of Men. I'm not really sure what I think yet. I'm not sure what they wanted me to think. I'm not sure. If any of you know how I'm supposed to feel about this movie I'd like to know. I could think people are rotten. I sometimes do think that. Especially when I encounter large scale group-think. I don't like environments where there is no thoughtful dissent. I don't like people killing each other senselessly. at the same time deciding what makes for sensible killing each other i don't know.. i'm not sure there is any sensible killing... since you all know how i feel about state sponsored killing, i guess that rules out any wars, executions, and assassinations as sensible...
i like the metaphor of human behavior on the Earth as the behavior as a disease or parasite on the body of the Earth. It's just too complete and good. i have to go watch something else now or else i'll have nightmares.
i like the metaphor of human behavior on the Earth as the behavior as a disease or parasite on the body of the Earth. It's just too complete and good. i have to go watch something else now or else i'll have nightmares.
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You're supposed to feel however you normally feel. You can put what you want into it. Especially the ending.
I loved this movie for all the same reasons why I love Schindler's List, but Schindler's List is harder to watch. Children of Men was like an action version of Schindler's List.
In both movies I see a story of ordinary men who become heroic just by not being evil when everyone else around them thinks they have an excuse to be evil.
we live in a sick, sad, fallen world...we all need to find our Hope. I'm just glad that there is some, and, for me, that it doesn't require humanity to save itself. I'd have trouble getting out of bed without that.
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