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Wall of Beef
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 Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 8:40 am Post subject: Re: Children of Men thread |
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| boojiboy7 wrote: |
While I will agree that this is a totally great movie, having just returned from seeing it, the poliitical commentar yin the film is not too subtle at all. I mean, you are pretty regularly bombarded with imagery tying what is happening in the movie to today, and specifically the Iraq war. Now granted, compared to most movies, this is subtle, but I still, overall, would say it was relatively blatant as a whole. |
Well you have to assume that since the whole infertility deal began in 2009, the last war that would have been a big issue that they would be protesting would have been the Iraq war. That basically the world stopped as it was at that point and began to become this marshall law state 20 years later.
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Wall of Beef
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| Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 9:00 pm |
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I don't think the movie has any thing to do with the Iraq war. Its just that it was the last War before the world went to shit with the infertility, and that the characters happened to be activists at one time. They could have forwarded history and have some sort of North Korean war be mentioned, but I guess they wanted to connect it more with the current world of the viewer.
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Wall of Beef
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| Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 9:39 pm |
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| boojiboy7 wrote: |
| dude, i mean, the wall of articles and posters and shit about the iraq war wasn't enough of a tip off? |
Im assuming you mean the stuff within Jaspers house that they panned over? Because that was the only stuff that I remember that specifically mentioned Iraq.
| boojiboy7 wrote: |
| the martial law on the streets, the insurgence, the fricking parade with the dead body and the people shouting in arabic while holding up banners? I mean, it might not be specifically iraq (though i think it is) but it is most certainly the middle east. |
The martial law, insurgence, and the parade was all because they were all refugees that just rose up and were in a fight with the British Goverment. The arabic chanting and carrying banners probably had to due with that they were immigrants from the middle east and were reverting back to their own Nationalisim after getting free from the cages/camps the british were putting them in. There were plenty of non-middle eastern people in that parade too who were firing guns off into the air and such.
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Wall of Beef
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| Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 11:14 am |
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Another thing that kept popping into my head when I was watching this movie, "Man, this looks like an expensive movie." It just looks like they had to do a shit ton of work on these sets and locations just to dirty them up. I guess thats probably not too expensive, but just everything was so authentic looking. Maybe there was more CG than I can tell (a good thing) but either way I was just blown away by every environment and backdrop they traveld through.
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Wall of Beef
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| Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 11:55 am |
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| Dracko wrote: |
| Who here thinks the ending could have done with being just two or three seconds earlier? |
Do you mean not showing the ship "Tomorrow" arriving? Or literally cutting 2 or 3 seconds of footage of the dingy floating in the water?
Or I suppose you mean the voice over of her saying the child was fine or whatever.
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Wall of Beef
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| Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 11:50 pm |
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| Mr. Apol wrote: |
| i hope metal gear solid 4 plays like how this movie looked. |
Theo did not have the luxury of a suit that just chameleons to whatever texture you touch.
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