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"Children of Men"/"Temptation of wolves"
Jan. 2nd, 2007 05:55 pmI watched “Children of Men” from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
trailer_spot’s recommendation and keep returning to it in my thoughts already for two weeks. In a way, this film turned my world upside down. If you haven’t seen it yet – this is definitely must-see of this winter.
Synopsis In the future world where women lost the ability to bare children, Theodore Faron (Clive Owen) is helping a woman pregnant with child to find a safe place. The story takes place in England 2027 where any emigration is illegal and where anyone who is an illegal immigrant is put into immigration camps, no much better then concentration camps.
Director and cinematography Mexican-born director Alfonso Cuarón is known for his adaptation of “Harry Porter and the Prizoner of Askaban”. It is difficult for me to judge because I have never read any of “Harry Porter” books, but this is my favourite out of the Harry Porter movies so far.
His latest film, “Children of Men” is filmed in experimental and very unusual way. This includes innovative camera angles and amazing feel for colour and composition. The film starts as autumnal story of dying and decay, but towards the end this mood changes for something new. One of the final scenes of street-battle was filmed in one take with the clever use of pyrothecnics and this gives it a goose-bumps inducing feel of something happening before your very eyes, and this feeling followed me through the whole film , it felt like this is really happening. The other interesting thing was to convey information with objects and composition as well as with the dialogue.
( Review, I tried to keep spoiler-free, but I guess there are some vague spoilers )
( Screencaps from the film )
Soundtrack Is just out of this world. My favourite is Italian singer Franco Battiato’s take of “Ruby Tuesday”. One of the strange facts I found while looking for Ruby Tuesday’s lyrics is that this song was one of the songs that were forbidden to broadcast in US during the period following 11 of September 2001. I don’t understand why, I must say!!
"Temptation of Wolves"
I have also watched Korean film "Temptation of Wolves" and didn't like it very much at all. My thoughts on it are Here, in![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
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trailer_spot’s recommendation and keep returning to it in my thoughts already for two weeks. In a way, this film turned my world upside down. If you haven’t seen it yet – this is definitely must-see of this winter.Synopsis In the future world where women lost the ability to bare children, Theodore Faron (Clive Owen) is helping a woman pregnant with child to find a safe place. The story takes place in England 2027 where any emigration is illegal and where anyone who is an illegal immigrant is put into immigration camps, no much better then concentration camps.
Director and cinematography Mexican-born director Alfonso Cuarón is known for his adaptation of “Harry Porter and the Prizoner of Askaban”. It is difficult for me to judge because I have never read any of “Harry Porter” books, but this is my favourite out of the Harry Porter movies so far.
His latest film, “Children of Men” is filmed in experimental and very unusual way. This includes innovative camera angles and amazing feel for colour and composition. The film starts as autumnal story of dying and decay, but towards the end this mood changes for something new. One of the final scenes of street-battle was filmed in one take with the clever use of pyrothecnics and this gives it a goose-bumps inducing feel of something happening before your very eyes, and this feeling followed me through the whole film , it felt like this is really happening. The other interesting thing was to convey information with objects and composition as well as with the dialogue.
( Review, I tried to keep spoiler-free, but I guess there are some vague spoilers )
( Screencaps from the film )
Soundtrack Is just out of this world. My favourite is Italian singer Franco Battiato’s take of “Ruby Tuesday”. One of the strange facts I found while looking for Ruby Tuesday’s lyrics is that this song was one of the songs that were forbidden to broadcast in US during the period following 11 of September 2001. I don’t understand why, I must say!!
"Temptation of Wolves"
I have also watched Korean film "Temptation of Wolves" and didn't like it very much at all. My thoughts on it are Here, in
dorama_chat
