Tag: Children of Men

• What practical lessons have you learned from movies?

  A while back I started keeping a list of things I’ve learned from movies. Not grand philosophical lessons about life and love and all that, but practical, everyday stuff. Stuff I’ve integrated into my life specifically because I saw it in a movie. I thought I should share what I’ve accumulated thus far, assuming that…

  Apr 3, 2020

  # Children of Men, film, lists, movies, Ratatouille, Titanic, Zombieland

• Pay attention during ‘Children of Men’

  I noticed the bustling in the background during my first viewing of Children of Men, but it was overshadowed by the main plot and everything else going on. It wasn’t until the second or third viewing when I started paying attention.

  Sep 24, 2015

  # Children of Men, film, movies

• Living In Dystopia

  I’m a sucker for dystopian films. I’m still not sure exactly what draws me to this kind of story. Maybe it’s because of the infinite re-viewings of the Back to the Future trilogy, specifically Part II, which focused on people seeing hellish versions of their past or future and fighting to fix them. Perhaps it’s because…

  Nov 16, 2012

  # America, Back to the Future, Children of Men, dystopia, film, George Orwell, I Robot, Lexicon Valley, movies, politics, V for Vendetta

• Best Films of the 2000s

  The Lives of Others (2006) – A German film about a surveillance expert who spies on a playwright in Communist Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall, The Lives of Others won the Best Foreign film at the Oscars and for good reason. Unbearably suspenseful and surprisingly moving, The Lives of Others shows that…

  Dec 30, 2009

  # best of, Children of Men, film, High Fidelity, In America, lists, Memento, movies, Once, review, The Lives of Others, Unbreakable, WALL-E, Zodiac