Doomsday movie of the week
Tuesday, January 9, 2007 at 19:00 
Children Of Men staring UK's Clive Owen. Good movie. A little Blade Runner. Here is the movie premise. It's London, 2027, and the world has gone to hell in a handbasket. The population is mysteriously infertile, major governments have gone nuke crazy—basically, things are really, really bad. You know all that war stuff that's been going on in the Middle East since, like, forever? In Children of Men, it's spread to the entire world. Britain is the last man standing, and he's about to fall.
Theo (Clive Owen) is a former activist turned government bureaucrat wasting away among the chaos, drunk and embittered. When his ex-wife Julian (Julianne Moore) asks him to aid a group of radicals, he ironically becomes the antiestablishment hero he wanted to be 20 years ago. His assignment? To escort the first pregnant woman in 19 years out of dangerous British borders. With that, the fight for survival begins, and it ain't pretty. Director Alfonso Cuarón takes his career to a whole other level here. He expertly preys on our doomsday fears, punctuating scenes with the harsh sounds and images of war we've already heard and seen on the nightly news.
The movie in short was about a man who has to save a young women and her tiny new born baby so that the world will not come to an end. Giving us hope that humanity will continue, I suppose. Michael Caine plays a bright, kind and wacky hippie who helped out by hidding the women and her child (the first baby born in 18 years) Tons of shooting, blood and intestines in your face. I enjoyed this movie as I said. It seemed to be a very long. It could have been shortened to 15 minutes and it would have had the same impact. I might need some time to think about the movie to figure out its message. I am sure there was one.
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The Horrible would be like--I don't know--terminal cases and blind people, cripples. I don't know how they get through life. It's amazing to me, you know.
And the Miserable is everyone else. So when you go through life, you should be thankful that you're Miserable. Becuase you're very lucky to be Miserable.