A Banksy Cut from its wall. David, broken. La Pieta, smashed and forgotten. Guernica, mindlessly portrayed Art, saved but hidden. Alex. Animals, the pig. "I just dont think about it." I love how much this scene erodes my soul.
Love the contrast of privileged rich people eating a peaceful meal beneath Pablo Picasso's Guernica - a famous anti-war work of art depicting horrific violence on the streets of Spain.
I remember seeing this movie in theatres and it hit especially hard because when this movie takes place (2027) ill be the same age as Theo, cant believe how close it is now
@@ConifirOtt only in a capitalist realist "post-ideological" state would we be concerned with preserving artifacts for a culture that will not exist into the future to appreciate them. it is no different than a pharaoh being buried with all his riches, but in the bureaucratic grey drab lottery flair of the british parliament, this job; which is to die with the nation's cultural wealth, is instead foisted onto some white collar white british snob. instead of the king or queen themselves.
This is one of the most memorable moments and scenes in any movie I've ever seen. There is something deeply gut wrenching about it. Yet subtly gut wrenching. Its gross, and tragic, and painful, and absolutely miserable. I love it so much.
Zizek nails it: art without a public is dead, useless. Even the icon of politically engaged art, Guernica. At the same time, this is a metaphor for the museum right now-- as something hermetic and sealed off from politics. And sadly there is something to this, too.
@@jlee5490 you must read george orwell "animal farm" before to even understand pink floyd's "animals" album...then you will understand childrens of men scene.
What stood out for me is the excellent subtle but deadly rendering someone with a supposed authority instantly embarassed and belittled - with the simple "You got something in your teeth". Notice the guy then embarassingly trying to touch his teeth to check. Genius. Guaranteed to work on anyone you come across who acts snobby or condesending. I will use this one.
@@edercortes1960 that man probably wasn't being overly condescending. Theo is a rebellious character as we know in the film. I just said it could be used against anyone in life who comes across condescending.
My fan theory is that Alex was in prison or involved with gang activity hence the street/prison tattoos on his hand and neck. He has a deep scare on his face which to me resembles a bullet wound, perhaps he was a spoiled powerful rich kid with no real direction or purpose in life and took pleasure in criminal life and violent behavior. Since his dad is so powerful he usually always gets out of legal trouble somehow. Maybe he eventually got shot in the face and became mentally or physically disabled from it. Now he lives a life of house arrest and probation, maybe apart of his sentencing is to have a mandatory prescription to a mood balancer kinda like future riddaline but with no FDA oversight. No he lives docile life heavily medicated to suppress his violent behavior as hence why Nigile easily freaked out when his son wasn’t complying to his mandatory meds.
I like your theory. It is a deep dive into a less than minor character. But then again, this movie was released just a couple of years before the rise in popularity of tattoos. These days everyone and their moms has a tattoo, including rich kids, to the point that it is no longer original or an identity statement. SO maybe the scriptwriters were just good at looking at future trends.
Love the use of "Alex." Does nothing, means nothing... but somehow elevates the scene. Curious how he was written in or thought of in the scene. Most screenwriters would've just had the two characters or forced dialog out of Alex.
@@annabenassayag9948 didn’t realize at first but the script specifies the mob that attacks them in the woods are Omegas (or “Zeds” as the script calls them) too!
I disagree that it means nothing. I think it shows that beneath the pristine look of everything they’re equally as anxious and ready to explode as anyone else. The “I just don’t think about it” really seems more like “I desperately try not to think about it”
I think it highlights the disassociation from reality that these people have to keep going. Imagine being a teenager with no future and hope for building a family. His only path is to busy his mind and completely disassociate from reality, also emphasizing this is the fact he’s on medication which could be for depression. It draws a parallel with video game addiction today, saying (I feel) that addiction is a product of the anxieties of our society over just pure dopamine lure.
This film is quite the masterpiece, and never disappoints when it comes to leaving me with a complete sense of bottomless hopelessness and utter shame. Brilliant in every way as it chips away at my confidence in humanity and our self acquired responsibility as custodians of this planet within it and on it. This film is quite the masterpiece, and beautiful somehow.
The symbolism is surreal here. Huge resources preserving art, elites in an enclave playing with exotic animals, totally warped priorities dealing with this mess. Or are they fatalistic, trying to enjoy the good life while it still exists?
There's references to the government doing fertility research, presumably throwing huge resources at it with no results. Mandatory fertility testing certainly exists. IIRC one of the concerns the protagonists have is that the pregnant woman will be experimented on quite horrifically. Beyond that, it's a bit questionable what they can do? Preserving art so it's still there if they fix the fertility issue makes sense I guess. They seem to be running the country okay, all things considered. Every other country seems to have collapsed. Maybe preserving a rich enclave gives people hope that they could one day join it, and keeps them from completely rioting?
I love the use of art in this movie. That Picasso piece foreshadowing the third act and the imagery of people suffering from war are direct reference to more of Picasso's work to the near fanatical preservation of work from classical antiquity is a clear parallel to the fascist tenet of "preserving the west".
@@mr.anderson2241Of course you would say that Alexander... I bet if it was heathens or vampire iconography then I'd think you could very much imagine it.
The first realistic "1984" film - brilliant. I often wonder why others act as though they hadn't seen this . . . or conceived of unacceptable totalitarianism.
Seems like fairly acceptable Totalitarianism to me, Britain's barely holding on by threads. The movie is about end of the human race, if there was ever a time for Totalitarianism that seems like the time.
@@williamkeeton4386 Not being able to have kids lead to the end of the world. It was the end of the human race within a single generation, you couldn't replace any workers so production and agriculture quickly fell apart. Suicides rates went through the roof and people fell into religious extremism. Nothing mattered anymore. Only the governments that went hardcore Fascist actually survived. Actually basically just the UK survived but that might just be propaganda. Propaganda or not, we know all of Europe and the Middle East have collapsed and there are no signs of any other countries.
I don't actually think sudden global infertility is "realistic". I mean, even though things aren't as bad as Blade Runner now, and we're still a long way off from real-looking androids, in many ways that film is more realistic.
I always liked the little details of Theo carrying a bottle with him at all times. All those years of living in a deteriorating environment has messed his head up good. The only things in this scene that puzzle me is what Alex's relations with Nigel is, why he is so unresponsive to instructions to take the pills, and what those pills were meant for.
Basically what they were taking was the drug being advertised everywhere through the move, "Quietus". The kit has both anti-depressants (thought-killing, apathy) and suicide pills (as stated in the book). As the world has no reason or hope for a future since everyone will die in 30 years, and because older generations are taking up resources of the young, the State supplies and even condones suicide. This is why Alex is so out of it and this is the reason why Alex says to Theo, "I just don't think about". He doesn't think about anything because Quietus has killed his thoughts, worries, and feelings. You see them both take the pills.. I hope this explanation helped :P
Love how on the way in the car jumps from the Mall to Battersea Power Station to the inside of the Tate Modern in just a few frames, as if they're all next to each other. Quite a hop around London!
I’ve loved this whole sequence of scenes since I first saw the movie, fifteen or whatever years ago, at the movies. King Crimson just fits so well with the whole thing, with a big fat reference to Pink Floyd to boot.
I appreciate the "reference", but at the same time, it serves to show that Art is valued beyond anything else in this world at this point. It's almost making the reverse impression of the original "Animals" cover art. It's the Battersea Power Station, which was ending it's useful life at the time. The 40 ft porcine balloon, known as Algie, was inflated with helium and maneuvered into position on December 2, 1976, with a marksman ready to fire if it escaped. Inclement weather delayed work, and the band's manager Steve O'Rourke neglected to book the marksman for a second day; the balloon broke free of its moorings and disappeared from view. The pig flew over Heathrow, resulting in panic and cancelled flights; pilots also spotted the pig in the air. It eventually landed in Kent and was recovered by a local farmer.
@@AradSP Probably an oversight, budget limitations or a failure to deliver the desired props on time. Also consider it's not even a guarantee that the bobby's helmets saying 'CR' was an intentional detail, either. That might have just been the production crew having to use whatever props were offered to them by the company they were working with.
randomguy6679 forgoing the infertility crisis as displayed in the film, the film actually shows what many western nations could turn into, because there are so many ethnic groups who don’t see eye to eye with each other coupled with a potential oil and fuel crisis that could happen in the not so distant future, such things that are portrayed in the film are becoming closer to reality, the dark age has already came to us at the turn of the century and we are seeing its negative effects more and more each day
I dont know why, but this makes me irrate with rage. Public Art is meant for the public. Cutting a fucking wall out of a building to take a street artists work behind closed doors fucking infuriates me.
It's actually a book reference. The last generation, the Zeds, or gen Z in our world are all nihilistic and spoilt rotten. They have nothing to lose since they don't need to save a world for their kids, and whether it's because the infertility plague affected them in a way that didn't kill them or they're just that much of a ruined generation isn't revealed. But this is why Diego was murdered at the start of the movie, because he wasn't very nice to a fan because he was a horrible entitled wanker. And why Patric is so angry and psychopathic too. Alex is the same, as can be seen by his tats and scars, and his dad is pacifying him with pills and that unusual game. Not all Zeds are anarchist rebels, some go into government and become soldiers, secret police, etc. These ones are the most terrifying apparently. Obviously they aren't ALL like that as Kee demonstrates, but it's a noticeable worldwide problem.
Yeah except the movie portrays illegal immigration in a way that makes it seem like a real issue to any rational person yet still somehow expects the audience to see it negatively for... God knows why. It's one of the worst things about the film in my opinion
I remember thinking about how there’s a line of dialogue that says ‘the king of England’ and realising yeah the queen would be 101 in the year this was set.
When I was young I found this disgusting, the idea that the wealthy and the government would elevate art above the human condition. Now I am older and understand that the art would soon be all that was left of the human condition. After the last baby was born, lived a hellish life and then died, when nothing was left and all meaning evaporated, art will be the only sign that culture and feeling, joy and suffering, existed at all. In the end it isn't our technology or even our lives that we leave in this universe. Only our art spans the gap. Enjoy it and make art while you can. Go to a museum. Draw on the heritage your ancestors left you. There is no Life, at least nothing meaningful, without Art. Just a series of encounters and then blackness without memory.
It's more complicated than even this... Guernica portrays horrific barbarism, and its displayed in a dining room. David, said to be one of the best representations of the human form, has a broken leg. La Pieta, a statue showing the grief of a mother at the loss of her son, smashed and forgotten. A Banksy, taken from its community, cut from a wall, and placed indoors where no one can see it. They are so busy trying to preserve this art, but are utterly failing to be moved by that art. And preventing the public from being moved by it.
Fantastic scene. Fantastic movie. I remember when this film came out. So underrated. If you like Transformers or any of the "spoonfed sugar" that is the superhero movie genre? Then Children of Men is not for you.
Superhero movies can never be good as art pieces like Children of Men. They follow the old "Hollywood Formula" of story telling. In Children of Men we watch long takes and watch the character of Theo still evolving. Long shots that go up to 5 minutes long giving time for the viewer to experience his point of view. There has never been a superhero movie that wasn't predictable. Sorry but that's the truth. And I have never read any of the comics to know ahead of time. It's actually appalling to me you would insinuate at all that superhero movies can come even close to Children of Men.
It looks like some type of game... I dont know but that also always interested me, I wondered what he was doing, which may be some powerplay symbolism from the director
@@blackleague212 you've never had a dinner party with old friends, their kids and yours glued to their cell phones swiping into the ether, oblivious to the conversation, disconnected from what's happening around them, playing fidgety rhythm games (and possibly forgetting to take their pills)..? The point is that youth has given up and withdrawn completely into a virtual world of entertainment and games, their mental health affected to the point that they need to be medicated. Mind you, this movies predates the iPhone and social media!
Every time I watch this something new is showing, that I missed the last time. This time I realized the reason behind why he pointed to the gaurds something in his teeth. the pinky to the mouth corner is a reference to Dr. Evil or the inspiration for that concept.
The detail of David having a broken foot is recreated later, after Theo kills Syd, and impales his foot on something sharp. Also, both are a reference to the Fisher King, from The Wasteland.
And now battersea power station is a giant apple store opposite insanely expensive apartments for russian oligarchs and tv personalities. Not far off the dystopia
This scene so perfectly encapsulates everything wrong with the Western World. The world could be literally falling apart around us and we'd still be hosting Tupperware parties and smoking cigars. "I just don't think about it."
Your neighbors world is probably falling apart. That homeless guy, that clerk at the gas station, the rich man in the Mercedes considering suicide. You never bothered to spend more than a few seconds of thought and some lip service on the internet. You can't just call an entire part of the world evil and ignorant. Thats everywhere. Just give the homeless guy some snacks and change, the clerk a thank you and the man in the Mercedes a smile.
It’s not like people today are any better at thinking about it. Atheists for example think there is no God, and one day the universe will end and no one is left. If you believe that, why go on? Your actions have no meaning, whether good or bad.
Might as well believe in something, at least the flying spaghetti monster or Darth vader. What's the consequence of being wrong? At least faith gives some sort of hope in life. I would be way worse off if I had no religion. Religious principle's have kept me from doing stupid things that would have ruined my life. I agree 100%
Better to enrich the complexity that we have even if it’s temporary. Eventually everything succumbs to entropy. Really, it’s about the extent of complexity that any sentience system can reach before entropy ruins it all. Better tired than dead. ;)
Fucking Danny Houston is such an underrated actor. One of the few American actors to do British accent. Does anyone know the name of the opera music in the background?
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There are probably thousands of dystopian future movies made over the years. This one nails it! It’s so ....... human.
Don't think it's as "human" as Blade Runner. You might say the two movies are tears in the rain...
This one hits close cause it’s basically reality
@@amosonyoutubeexactly. The book is based on widely accepted outcomes of unchangeable demographic trends that we’ve known about for decades.
Feels particularly real, doesn't it? A masterpiece of a movie.
This movie became reality
A Banksy Cut from its wall.
David, broken.
La Pieta, smashed and forgotten.
Guernica, mindlessly portrayed
Art, saved but hidden.
Alex.
Animals, the pig.
"I just dont think about it."
I love how much this scene erodes my soul.
Love the contrast of privileged rich people eating a peaceful meal beneath Pablo Picasso's Guernica - a famous anti-war work of art depicting horrific violence on the streets of Spain.
And later in the movie we see the violence play out in a manner similar to the painting
"Know what it is, Theo? I just don't think about it."
Damn that hits hard.
That's me these days. Climate change, Nuclear war? Pandemic? Inequality, Whatever.
@@michaeljeffery7466nerd lol
@@Blahblahyah Right, my anxieties about you degenerate Fucks makes me a nerd.
@@Blahblahyah”nerd lol” - 🤓
@@tobiasrieper6640 nobody invited you, you dork lol
I remember seeing this movie in theatres and it hit especially hard because when this movie takes place (2027) ill be the same age as Theo, cant believe how close it is now
Isn't it even closer now
of course, its closer every month
How do we know how old Theo is?
@@watwillwedonext no shit
@@watwillwedonext In fact, too many people are breeding their brains out. No more humans would being quite the blessing.
Love the use of King Crimson's song here!
Absolutely agree.
Felt like an official music video years later.
One of the most genius usage of a song in any movie
In the court of the crimson king, classic
And the floating pig from the Pink Floyd album.
this is one of the only non-smoking facilities in the entire movie. the govt cares more about preserving the past than anything else
very well spotted
There is no future, that's why
@@ConifirOtt only in a capitalist realist "post-ideological" state would we be concerned with preserving artifacts for a culture that will not exist into the future to appreciate them. it is no different than a pharaoh being buried with all his riches, but in the bureaucratic grey drab lottery flair of the british parliament, this job; which is to die with the nation's cultural wealth, is instead foisted onto some white collar white british snob. instead of the king or queen themselves.
The movie hits differently when you read mark fisher
@@hassanjraidi6235 100%
"Alex" is surely a nod to A Clockwork Orange.
This is one of the most memorable moments and scenes in any movie I've ever seen. There is something deeply gut wrenching about it. Yet subtly gut wrenching. Its gross, and tragic, and painful, and absolutely miserable.
I love it so much.
Zizek nails it: art without a public is dead, useless. Even the icon of politically engaged art, Guernica.
At the same time, this is a metaphor for the museum right now-- as something hermetic and sealed off from politics. And sadly there is something to this, too.
@@SuperRobertoClemente Based Zizek referencing.
"And in his anger he has taken away his most precious gift to us..."
Um no, we saw earlier in the film that Michael Caine still had some weed.
"Strawberry Cough"
Ah, hope's not lost yet
@@antonsterlin9720 may i interest you in some Zen music?
"Pull my finger."
Isn't weed man made?
Love the Pink Floyd reference to their Animals album in this! Such a fantastic movie.
And the cool thing is the film is set 50 years after the album - which gives some context as to how the pig fits into the fictional world.
Wow I always wondered what the floating pig and industrial background was about for 10+ years. What's it all mean?
@@jlee5490 you must read george orwell "animal farm" before to even understand pink floyd's "animals" album...then you will understand childrens of men scene.
What stood out for me is the excellent subtle but deadly rendering someone with a supposed authority instantly embarassed and belittled - with the simple "You got something in your teeth". Notice the guy then embarassingly trying to touch his teeth to check. Genius. Guaranteed to work on anyone you come across who acts snobby or condesending. I will use this one.
Was he really condescending? I mean all he said was there’s no smoking in here 🤷♂️. But I get your point the little details man
@@edercortes1960 that man probably wasn't being overly condescending. Theo is a rebellious character as we know in the film. I just said it could be used against anyone in life who comes across condescending.
My favorite scene in the film. It tells you everything you need to know about this film. Beautiful.
This film is more relevant than ever before.
a true masterpiece it feels so real and horribly possible
Pink Floyd's Animals... if anybody is interested in what inspired the setting for this whole scene, look it up!
It's pigs right?
Theirs dogs in almost every scene
@@letsanimateit1676 Pigs on the wing is one of the songs on the album Animals
Swear I've been looking for this scene for god knows how long.
@@FuckyWucky its not underground, it’s classic!
If you don't think about death you'll never die. (in a sense)
If you don't think about death you'll never live
One of my favorite movies. Brilliantly written, brilliantly acted, and has a fantastic plot.
one of those films that inspires you to smoke and drink.
So true😂
My fan theory is that Alex was in prison or involved with gang activity hence the street/prison tattoos on his hand and neck. He has a deep scare on his face which to me resembles a bullet wound, perhaps he was a spoiled powerful rich kid with no real direction or purpose in life and took pleasure in criminal life and violent behavior. Since his dad is so powerful he usually always gets out of legal trouble somehow. Maybe he eventually got shot in the face and became mentally or physically disabled from it. Now he lives a life of house arrest and probation, maybe apart of his sentencing is to have a mandatory prescription to a mood balancer kinda like future riddaline but with no FDA oversight. No he lives docile life heavily medicated to suppress his violent behavior as hence why Nigile easily freaked out when his son wasn’t complying to his mandatory meds.
Man IDK, maybe they simply predicted the rise in popularity of neck tattoos
@@hansolo631 When this movie was made in the early 2000s, were already all the rage. It's face tattoos now that are on the rise.
Or just nihilism. Seems like nihilism would be a fairly straightforward explaination given the circumstances.
You all should read the novel....
Alex doesn't exist in it.
I like your theory. It is a deep dive into a less than minor character.
But then again, this movie was released just a couple of years before the rise in popularity of tattoos. These days everyone and their moms has a tattoo, including rich kids, to the point that it is no longer original or an identity statement. SO maybe the scriptwriters were just good at looking at future trends.
Love the use of "Alex." Does nothing, means nothing... but somehow elevates the scene. Curious how he was written in or thought of in the scene. Most screenwriters would've just had the two characters or forced dialog out of Alex.
I think he evocates the Omegas, the last generation, which is more talked about in the book!
@@annabenassayag9948 didn’t realize at first but the script specifies the mob that attacks them in the woods are Omegas (or “Zeds” as the script calls them) too!
I disagree that it means nothing. I think it shows that beneath the pristine look of everything they’re equally as anxious and ready to explode as anyone else. The “I just don’t think about it” really seems more like “I desperately try not to think about it”
It's clearly a nod to A Clockwork Orange.
I think it highlights the disassociation from reality that these people have to keep going. Imagine being a teenager with no future and hope for building a family. His only path is to busy his mind and completely disassociate from reality, also emphasizing this is the fact he’s on medication which could be for depression. It draws a parallel with video game addiction today, saying (I feel) that addiction is a product of the anxieties of our society over just pure dopamine lure.
This film is quite the masterpiece, and never disappoints when it comes to leaving me with a complete sense of bottomless hopelessness and utter shame. Brilliant in every way as it chips away at my confidence in humanity and our self acquired responsibility as custodians of this planet within it and on it.
This film is quite the masterpiece, and beautiful somehow.
King Crimson is the most perfect band to play over a scene of dystopia. Just... such a perfect touch here lolol
I regret not watching this masterpiece in theaters.
The symbolism is surreal here. Huge resources preserving art, elites in an enclave playing with exotic animals, totally warped priorities dealing with this mess. Or are they fatalistic, trying to enjoy the good life while it still exists?
There's references to the government doing fertility research, presumably throwing huge resources at it with no results. Mandatory fertility testing certainly exists.
IIRC one of the concerns the protagonists have is that the pregnant woman will be experimented on quite horrifically.
Beyond that, it's a bit questionable what they can do? Preserving art so it's still there if they fix the fertility issue makes sense I guess.
They seem to be running the country okay, all things considered. Every other country seems to have collapsed. Maybe preserving a rich enclave gives people hope that they could one day join it, and keeps them from completely rioting?
I love the use of art in this movie. That Picasso piece foreshadowing the third act and the imagery of people suffering from war are direct reference to more of Picasso's work to the near fanatical preservation of work from classical antiquity is a clear parallel to the fascist tenet of "preserving the west".
Couldn't save la pieta. Smashed up before we got there.
(but you still see it later in the movie, after they get to Bexhill)
@@joerf1188 tte woman and the dead son
Thats one scary phrase, makes you think how fucked up must be the outside world
Of all the religious iconography it’s insane to think that it would be that one that would be destroyed
@@mr.anderson2241Of course you would say that Alexander...
I bet if it was heathens or vampire iconography then I'd think you could very much imagine it.
either you get crushed by the machine, or you simply avoid it.
i prefer to destroy the machine
Just another brick in the wall and the world of art, like a dart that struck my heart.
Alex, take your pills... Alex... Alex??... *ALEX!!*
And I think this movie was before the smartphones. XD
Danger zone
@@moonkim9320 right before the dark ages.
@@CinemaRescored I'm detecting boomer energy
@@yuzat I was born in the late 80s, apparently years later than you (judging by your name).
The first realistic "1984" film - brilliant. I often wonder why others act as though they hadn't seen this . . . or conceived of unacceptable totalitarianism.
Seems like fairly acceptable Totalitarianism to me, Britain's barely holding on by threads.
The movie is about end of the human race, if there was ever a time for Totalitarianism that seems like the time.
You are so right!! Never made that link. Well done!!
@@jakechinn6561 I think in the movie totalitarianism low key is what ended the human race but idk
@@williamkeeton4386 Not being able to have kids lead to the end of the world. It was the end of the human race within a single generation, you couldn't replace any workers so production and agriculture quickly fell apart. Suicides rates went through the roof and people fell into religious extremism. Nothing mattered anymore.
Only the governments that went hardcore Fascist actually survived. Actually basically just the UK survived but that might just be propaganda. Propaganda or not, we know all of Europe and the Middle East have collapsed and there are no signs of any other countries.
I don't actually think sudden global infertility is "realistic". I mean, even though things aren't as bad as Blade Runner now, and we're still a long way off from real-looking androids, in many ways that film is more realistic.
It's easy to not think about it when you are living in the lap of luxury, the curator of an art depository and have power.
I always liked the little details of Theo carrying a bottle with him at all times. All those years of living in a deteriorating environment has messed his head up good.
The only things in this scene that puzzle me is what Alex's relations with Nigel is, why he is so unresponsive to instructions to take the pills, and what those pills were meant for.
Basically what they were taking was the drug being advertised everywhere through the move, "Quietus". The kit has both anti-depressants (thought-killing, apathy) and suicide pills (as stated in the book). As the world has no reason or hope for a future since everyone will die in 30 years, and because older generations are taking up resources of the young, the State supplies and even condones suicide.
This is why Alex is so out of it and this is the reason why Alex says to Theo, "I just don't think about". He doesn't think about anything because Quietus has killed his thoughts, worries, and feelings. You see them both take the pills..
I hope this explanation helped :P
Joshua Lee Thanks, fam. That makes sense.
also it's a metaphor for apathy now. how does anyone get through anything happening.... they just don't think about it.
Absolutely creepy and truthful realization of the world we live in today, Marz...
@@jlee5490 i love to think there's a bit of materialist hedonism sprinkled there
Love how on the way in the car jumps from the Mall to Battersea Power Station to the inside of the Tate Modern in just a few frames, as if they're all next to each other. Quite a hop around London!
Seen this movie dozens of times, love every minute of it. Still can't decide if Alex is his son or a toyboy.
what a grim world, no smartphones in sight tho
That's because it was filmed in 2005.
And theyre broke, except Alex
Alex is definitely playing around on something smartphone-adjacent.
This is the most profound scene in the entire movie. It’s so brilliant
children of men and do the right thing are two movies that hold up just as much today as when they came out, maybe more
I completely agree, but what's the connection between this movie and Do the Right Thing?
"i just don't think about it" --- that's great advice actually. fuck it
Easy for him to say though... when his son gets old, there won't be anybody alive below 60 to wipe his ass.
That's right mate, fuck it and enjoy art
No, it's not.
I’ve loved this whole sequence of scenes since I first saw the movie, fifteen or whatever years ago, at the movies. King Crimson just fits so well with the whole thing, with a big fat reference to Pink Floyd to boot.
Mark Fisher's analysis of this scene in Capitalist Realism is devastating. I think about it all the time.
I appreciate the "reference", but at the same time, it serves to show that Art is valued beyond anything else in this world at this point. It's almost making the reverse impression of the original "Animals" cover art.
It's the Battersea Power Station, which was ending it's useful life at the time. The 40 ft porcine balloon, known as Algie, was inflated with helium and maneuvered into position on December 2, 1976, with a marksman ready to fire if it escaped. Inclement weather delayed work, and the band's manager Steve O'Rourke neglected to book the marksman for a second day; the balloon broke free of its moorings and disappeared from view. The pig flew over Heathrow, resulting in panic and cancelled flights; pilots also spotted the pig in the air. It eventually landed in Kent and was recovered by a local farmer.
wonderful choice to have King Crimson's song here
I don’t like how much I already feel like the characters in this movie, lol.
The last song you can hear on the clip is Backward by Kode 9 and the SpaceApe
Brilliant movie, impeccable scene-made all the more so thanks to King Crimson and the always riveting Danny Huston.
Having Queen Elizabeth II on the bill at 1:15 implies she's still alive and reigning?
+This film introduced me to King Crimson as a kid at 2007!
She will be around long after humans have died. She is the immortal Queen so they say!
No. Look at the policeman's helmet in the opening scene. It said CR, not ER
@@CrowAndRedString True, but how come she's on the bill?
@@AradSP Probably an oversight, budget limitations or a failure to deliver the desired props on time. Also consider it's not even a guarantee that the bobby's helmets saying 'CR' was an intentional detail, either. That might have just been the production crew having to use whatever props were offered to them by the company they were working with.
It also introduced me to King Crimson in 2007! Neat!
His cigarette pack doesn't even have a huge warning sign or pictures of disgusting body parts. YOU CALL THIS DYSTOPIA?!
This dystopia is scary 😬
We're here now. This is reality.
Mai Nem can humans still reproduce?
randomguy6679 forgoing the infertility crisis as displayed in the film, the film actually shows what many western nations could turn into, because there are so many ethnic groups who don’t see eye to eye with each other coupled with a potential oil and fuel crisis that could happen in the not so distant future, such things that are portrayed in the film are becoming closer to reality, the dark age has already came to us at the turn of the century and we are seeing its negative effects more and more each day
@@baldrickthedungspreader3107 actually the infertility crisis is a thing.
@@baldrickthedungspreader3107 the apocalypse cometh...
1:00 thats an original "Banksy"
I dont know why, but this makes me irrate with rage. Public Art is meant for the public. Cutting a fucking wall out of a building to take a street artists work behind closed doors fucking infuriates me.
@@ItCameFromTheSkyBeLo its crazy how rich/wealthy his family was
@@mokiicustoms wealth enables artists in a capitalist society.
Otherwise they starve.
@@ItCameFromTheSkyBeLo I think that's exactly the reaction the filmmakers were hoping the audience to have.
I love the complete lack of explanation of what the fuck is going on with Alex! 😆😆
It's actually a book reference. The last generation, the Zeds, or gen Z in our world are all nihilistic and spoilt rotten. They have nothing to lose since they don't need to save a world for their kids, and whether it's because the infertility plague affected them in a way that didn't kill them or they're just that much of a ruined generation isn't revealed. But this is why Diego was murdered at the start of the movie, because he wasn't very nice to a fan because he was a horrible entitled wanker. And why Patric is so angry and psychopathic too. Alex is the same, as can be seen by his tats and scars, and his dad is pacifying him with pills and that unusual game. Not all Zeds are anarchist rebels, some go into government and become soldiers, secret police, etc. These ones are the most terrifying apparently.
Obviously they aren't ALL like that as Kee demonstrates, but it's a noticeable worldwide problem.
Every year it gets hotter and hotter and every year I try to ignore it......these scene keeps running through my head
A wonderful juxtaposition. To be happy in a mostly miserable world, you have to not think about it.
But in doing do, the misery around you gets worse.
Might be the most profound statement ever to be uttered.
The days when 'Report All Illegal Immigrants' was seen as dystopic.
Fuck off..
Love you too xxx
Yeah except the movie portrays illegal immigration in a way that makes it seem like a real issue to any rational person yet still somehow expects the audience to see it negatively for... God knows why. It's one of the worst things about the film in my opinion
This movie is about refugees fleeing nuclear war and world-wide conflict, not economic migrants.
ikr!
I remember thinking about how there’s a line of dialogue that says ‘the king of England’ and realising yeah the queen would be 101 in the year this was set.
Ah, yes. I think, there's a scene with a "King Charles" bill somewhere. Didn't need much of a foresight to do that, lol.
When you couldn’t save La Pieta cause she got smashed up before you got there 1:43
Was lucky to see the painting Guernica while it was at the MoMA in the 60s.
3:31 I show this clip to my son to let him know how ridiculous he looks when he’s playing Genshin on his phone while eating.
I like when he yells at his son. ALEX!!!!!!!!!!! 😁😁😁😆
It’s 2024 happy New Years.
When I was young I found this disgusting, the idea that the wealthy and the government would elevate art above the human condition. Now I am older and understand that the art would soon be all that was left of the human condition. After the last baby was born, lived a hellish life and then died, when nothing was left and all meaning evaporated, art will be the only sign that culture and feeling, joy and suffering, existed at all. In the end it isn't our technology or even our lives that we leave in this universe. Only our art spans the gap.
Enjoy it and make art while you can. Go to a museum. Draw on the heritage your ancestors left you. There is no Life, at least nothing meaningful, without Art. Just a series of encounters and then blackness without memory.
I feel like younger you had the right idea. We give art meaning, there is no art without humans to experience it.
It's more complicated than even this...
Guernica portrays horrific barbarism, and its displayed in a dining room.
David, said to be one of the best representations of the human form, has a broken leg.
La Pieta, a statue showing the grief of a mother at the loss of her son, smashed and forgotten.
A Banksy, taken from its community, cut from a wall, and placed indoors where no one can see it.
They are so busy trying to preserve this art, but are utterly failing to be moved by that art. And preventing the public from being moved by it.
Mark Fisher
it doesn't have to be this way. we have options
Alex looks like a Gucci model🔥
The soundtrack to this movie has probably been more influential to me than that of any movie ever, bar perhaps The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
I catch myself sometimes not being able to stop playing video games while eating. Guess I'm already part of a dystopian future.
Call me a fool, but I would want to save the art too. I'm not even sure why.
In such a dark world, art would be some of the only things of beauty left in the world. At least to some people.
Fantastic scene. Fantastic movie. I remember when this film came out. So underrated. If you like Transformers or any of the "spoonfed sugar" that is the superhero movie genre? Then Children of Men is not for you.
You like movies for all the wrong reasons
Children of Men is one of my favourites but superhero movies are also awesome, especially the Marvel films.
Well both are art, but just like when I sing and when a good singer does, there is a clear difference. This is art at its finest
Superhero movies can never be good as art pieces like Children of Men. They follow the old "Hollywood Formula" of story telling. In Children of Men we watch long takes and watch the character of Theo still evolving. Long shots that go up to 5 minutes long giving time for the viewer to experience his point of view. There has never been a superhero movie that wasn't predictable. Sorry but that's the truth. And I have never read any of the comics to know ahead of time. It's actually appalling to me you would insinuate at all that superhero movies can come even close to Children of Men.
I love this movie as well as comic book movies. Why are the two exclusive?
masterpiece of the dubya era
Anybody know whether something like that finger keyboard exists? Seems super cool
It looks like some type of game... I dont know but that also always interested me, I wondered what he was doing, which may be some powerplay symbolism from the director
@@blackleague212 you've never had a dinner party with old friends, their kids and yours glued to their cell phones swiping into the ether, oblivious to the conversation, disconnected from what's happening around them, playing fidgety rhythm games (and possibly forgetting to take their pills)..? The point is that youth has given up and withdrawn completely into a virtual world of entertainment and games, their mental health affected to the point that they need to be medicated. Mind you, this movies predates the iPhone and social media!
"Smashed up before we got there"
I wonder which group of loving religious people did that
BLM or Antifa
4:15 for the line
Every time I watch this something new is showing, that I missed the last time. This time I realized the reason behind why he pointed to the gaurds something in his teeth. the pinky to the mouth corner is a reference to Dr. Evil or the inspiration for that concept.
I think you are overthinking it. He did it to distract them. Or possibly he really had something between his teeth.
The detail of David having a broken foot is recreated later, after Theo kills Syd, and impales his foot on something sharp. Also, both are a reference to the Fisher King, from The Wasteland.
That kid glued to his screen was prescient...
Is his name Alex like from clockwork orange?
ALEX!! 😂😂😂😂😂
What?
@@alexanderthegreat445 take your pills!
0:58 How do you go to Battersea and end up in the Tate modern?
And now battersea power station is a giant apple store opposite insanely expensive apartments for russian oligarchs and tv personalities. Not far off the dystopia
Guernica
good point.
Wait, if the pig is flying above the station, why are they playing King Crimson and not Pink Floyd?
Somewhat relevant now...
Its always been relevant
It's freakishly relevant now. Almost as if the people who made this movie knew too much.
rightt!
danny houston is a good actor
Chuck bass
Danny Huston is awesome.
This scene so perfectly encapsulates everything wrong with the Western World. The world could be literally falling apart around us and we'd still be hosting Tupperware parties and smoking cigars. "I just don't think about it."
You think that only happens in the western world?
@@yuzat The rich all over the world are like that.
Someone told me today when discussing the political situation
That they are "not privileged enough to have an opinion" in the politics going on today
Surrounding yourself with distractions to avoid thinking about your problems is not a uniquely western thing lmao
Your neighbors world is probably falling apart. That homeless guy, that clerk at the gas station, the rich man in the Mercedes considering suicide. You never bothered to spend more than a few seconds of thought and some lip service on the internet.
You can't just call an entire part of the world evil and ignorant. Thats everywhere. Just give the homeless guy some snacks and change, the clerk a thank you and the man in the Mercedes a smile.
Fuckk. Alex look like the typical e-boy in 2021
What's going on with Alex?
I like how they have a flying pig out the window in the last scene.
Mark fisher
It’s not like people today are any better at thinking about it.
Atheists for example think there is no God, and one day the universe will end and no one is left.
If you believe that, why go on? Your actions have no meaning, whether good or bad.
Might as well believe in something, at least the flying spaghetti monster or Darth vader. What's the consequence of being wrong? At least faith gives some sort of hope in life. I would be way worse off if I had no religion. Religious principle's have kept me from doing stupid things that would have ruined my life. I agree 100%
When we die it’s over. Our consciousness and energy fades into the world and that’s it
@@MikeGoesBadaBoom What's your evidence for that? You're saying that, is if it is an objective truth, but there is no way you can know it.
Better to enrich the complexity that we have even if it’s temporary. Eventually everything succumbs to entropy. Really, it’s about the extent of complexity that any sentience system can reach before entropy ruins it all. Better tired than dead. ;)
its that pig from pink floyd haha first time noticing the reference
that album cover was also referencing George Orwells 'Animal Farm'
Fucking Danny Houston is such an underrated actor. One of the few American actors to do British accent. Does anyone know the name of the opera music in the background?
George Frideric Handel | Alexander's Feast, war he sung is toil and trouble
David, Guernica, and the pig from Animals.
Is that chuck bass? Asking for a friend
Always liked the Pink Floyd reference in this scene
I’m more curious how the economy is still afloat? It doesn’t really make sense to me.
It's never explained but maybe the state has taken over to ensure flows of resources and distribution of goods in the absence of a global market
@@omarvi280 - That is obvious it is throughout the film
Maybe the government ration and reuse/recycle the local resources, and imports/(secretly) steals goods from the unstainable countries.
@@omarvi280 That seems most likely in this case.
Every Pink Floyd fan was smiling when they saw the scene, myself included.
Whats alex watch?
What was the classical music playing while theo and his cousin were talking over lunch?