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Duckzero

Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Location: Microsoft Land
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Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 12:14 pm |
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I just finished watching this movie. I was blown away by how character driven it was, rather than plot driven. Few films pull that off really well. One thing I greatly appreciated is how they never, ever explain how the women become infertile, but all of the things, Michael Caine spoke of earlier in the film were completely present, and each one could be a cause. The pollution in the movie was crazy, the amount of drug advertisements were out of control, maybe the "illegal" drug usage, the overcrowding (which in turn might have been natures way of cutting the population down) and government experiments.
I was also reading the imdb boards, and it's funny because someone was complaining that Kee was an immigrant Black woman. Now that argument is rather silly because the whole theme (I believe) that an immigrant was the first to have a child, is because of the rampant poverty, lack of health care, and overall, lower life expectancy rate, which contributed to Kee being the first to have a child in 18 years. Unlike the other side of society seen in the beginning of the film where everything was artificially maintained and created, except for life, due to the sterility of the environment.
Yeah, either way, great film. Very thought provoking! _________________ Keepin' it real like Oatmeal |
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Duckzero

Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Location: Microsoft Land
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Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 6:49 am |
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| boojiboy7 wrote: |
Of course there are logical explanations in the movie for the parade and all that. If there weren't, it would be a stupid movie. However, the images presented were drawing on the modern presentation of the wars in the middle east. You can't think that the choice to have a parade like that in the middle of his movie was just the dircetor saying "eh, maybe i will make them...uhhh...middle eastern?" There is a clear significance to such a choice.
The constant use of the term Homeland Security for the British military is also significant. Yes, the term existed pre-9/11 and all, but it's rise in prominent usage can be directly seen to corrsepond to the fallout from 9/11. This movie is not just drawing on the Iraq war, but is drawing on all of the hysteria that has come out of the usage of modern terrorist tactics in the "civilized" west. The opening bombing sets up that the use of terrorist warfare has become rather common place in modern london, pretty similar to how it has become common place in, say, bahgdad.
The paranoia of the British in seeming to export immigrants for no good reason is only a few short steps away from what the US government was looking to do immediately following 9/11. The movie is taking what has been happening since 9/11 (including the IRaq war) and saying that this (the ruling state of paranoia and fear, not neccessarily the infertility) is the result of it all. |
I agree with all of this also:
The great thing about the movie was the point made about airlines and their security. When the nurse was on the bus and proclaimed her religion rather bluntly, which is the same as a female member of Islam with the headwraps, because it's just there, and how did the guard handle it? Take her out of the line, into a holding area to question her,maybe. But if you see the progression as they drove by, it was obvious that it was the start of her getting executed a few minutes later. _________________ Keepin' it real like Oatmeal |
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