Children of Men
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Oct 26, 2026
AksharaHOST
Coming to the first story.
AksharaHOST
Have you seen Children of Men? It's a great movie in which the world is wrecked by war, economic depression and closed borders.
AksharaHOST
We're certainly glad that this isn't happening in our world yet.
AksharaHOST
But its most unmistakable feature is none of this.
EvanHOST
And so it's funny you mentioned.
EvanHOST
So the person who's a cinematographer, he did a bunch of Alfonso Cuaron movies, including Children of Men, which is one of my favorite movies of all time, you know.
EvanHOST
By far.
EvanHOST
And that movie has also cinematography like this, where you just, you know.
EffyHOST
I think sit down until you're ready.
EffyHOST
He did Children of Men, right?
PeterHOST
Yes.
PeterHOST
Yeah, that movie...
BarrooHOST
movie.
BarrooHOST
If this is like the Harry Potter 3 before Children of Men, you know what I mean? I'm okay with it.
BarrooHOST
But it's still pretty shallow cash gravity.
BarrooHOST
It's still pretty like...
BenHOST
Beyond
GiordanoHOST
like the prescience of the film predicting some of the technologies that we have today, I think it's also interesting to talk about because as we said on our Children of Men episode, you could tell a lot about a society by the dystopia that it produces.
GiordanoHOST
So looking at any piece of dystopian fiction is always a valuable exercise.
BenHOST
The world
BonesPANELIST
Climax could be it.
RichGUEST
Children of Men.
RichGUEST
There's a Russian movie that pulled to the
BonesPANELIST
record.
Jimmy BernasconiHOST
And I think the idea of this film is kind of saying like, what is the reality of living in such a milieu? So similar to what we said last week, I think this film does a really good job of talking about showing how morality can be used as a weapon and not just any weapon, but like an unjust weapon.
Jimmy BernasconiHOST
And particularly one that is disguised as righteousness, very postmodern idea, where it's not just that, you know, you have some kind of like, imagine like a film like, I don't know if you've ever seen like Equilibrium or any of those dystopian films, like Children of Men or something, those kind of bleak ones where it's like, these are the rules, you will stick to them.
Jimmy BernasconiHOST
This film is a little bit more sophisticated and it's like, these are the rules, you'll stick to them.
Jimmy BernasconiHOST
Like it's all, it's very like gushy and lovely and that sort of thing.
Michael HerbertHOST
You can destroy the humanity.
Michael HerbertHOST
I have Children of Men, kind of a world-ending calamity.
Michael HerbertHOST
Signs is, like, threatening things.
Michael HerbertHOST
World destruction, along with War of the Worlds.
SeanHOST
I don't usually do.
SeanHOST
I get this far off on sci-fi, but I do enjoy like children of men is one of my favorite films as well.
SeanHOST
I think that's a great, I haven't done it on the podcast yet, but that's a great film set in the near future.
SeanHOST
Well, it was the near future when it was made.
Riley QuinnHOST
Now with this, they're saying, like, what if like we could just keep making like the like the same franchises forever with the same actors? And it's like, no, thank you.
Riley QuinnHOST
Could we just have some new actors? Like, I don't want to live in like the cultural version of Children of Men.
Riley QuinnHOST
Like, can we make new stuff, please?
Will SloanGUEST
No, it turns out the vampire's curse.
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