I saw the movie "Children of Men" today. My question is did anyone else completely bum out after the movie ended? My reaction was that I became clinically depressed. Was that the focus of the movie? If so the director succeeded.
2007-01-14 09:08:23 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
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Absolutely not. It was to give you hope that after she was rescued there would be hope for mankind after the Human Project figured out why she was different. Why the movie was so overwhelmingly depressing was more of a critique on present day politics, and as a lot of great science fiction, does more to show us what we are doing now than a real prospective future. Look at the movie and how people are treated, and it's a warning of what COULD happen if mankind continues to follow a neverending fear-inducing "war on 'terror.'" We all begin to fear anyone different than us so much we start useless, unwinnable wars that could destroy mankind.
There was a line in the movie about god punishing mankind, and that's why we can not have children any longer. Kee represented a new hope. That maybe we were worth saving. There is A LOT of religious symbolism in this movie that is supposed to represent the nativity story, and the birth of mankind's new hope for saving. So this movie is a statement of where we are and how stupid we are being, but also that maybe we are still worth saving. It ends in hope.
2007-01-14 09:22:51 · answer #1 · answered by fnord_2005 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I saw it yesterday. And when I left the movie theater, I couldn't speak. I was so depressed/shocked from the movie, that I couldn't even express my opinion on the movie. I still can't really say if I enjoyed the movie. It deserves a second watching, but I don't know if I could sit through all the depressing scenes again. It may have been the director's focus, but in the end, there was some hope. A tiny spark of hope in the water.
2007-01-14 09:18:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
This was a film not to see when you're feeling a bit low! In a way, it was depressing because the civil unrest continued, people still carried on fighting and, of course, we don't know what Theo's fate was. But there was also hope in that perhaps the human race had been given a second chance (there might have been more pregnant women out there) and that in the darkness, a baby's cry can bring light.
Dystopian films are often depressing but I think 'Children of Men' was slightly lighter because it ended on a hopeful note.
2007-01-14 09:27:46 · answer #3 · answered by starchilde5 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
My found son is just that - my son. Not my birthson.... I would think he would feel insulted if I introduced him as such. Just as adding the prefix birth to mother or father objectifies them - it does the same but more so, to a human being who was adopted to be referred to as a birth child. I don't get it why some people have a problem with the reality that an adopted person has two mothers, two fathers and he or she is merely a son or daughter to both.
2016-05-24 01:26:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
At the last of the film, the power of baby's cry is so big, all men are moved.
2007-01-17 05:22:40 · answer #5 · answered by kaneg 1 · 3⤊ 1⤋
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2007-01-16 10:13:23 · answer #6 · answered by Tom l 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
That movie was very dark and the ending was horrible. It just stopped! I was like what the heck! Is that the end?!
2007-01-14 09:35:20 · answer #7 · answered by Ms. H 6 · 1⤊ 6⤋
i havent seen it...sorry!
2007-01-14 09:15:41 · answer #8 · answered by cute as a button!.♥ 6 · 3⤊ 10⤋