The Children of Men - Revision history

Lquilter: spoiler

2007-04-28T14:12:56Z

spoiler

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	'''''The Children of Men''''' is a 1992 novel by P.D. James; a 2006 film, "[[Children of Men (film)\|Children of Men]]" by Alfonso Cuarón, is based on the novel.		'''''The Children of Men''''' is a 1992 novel by P.D. James; a 2006 film, "[[Children of Men (film)\|Children of Men]]" by Alfonso Cuarón, is based on the novel.

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	{{DEFAULTSORT:Children of Men, The}}		{{DEFAULTSORT:Children of Men, The}}

Lquilter: notes

2007-04-28T14:11:05Z

notes

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	'''''The Children of Men''''' is a 1992 novel by P.D. James; a 2006 film, "Children of Men" by Alfonso Cuarón, is based on the novel.		'''''The Children of Men''''' is a 1992 novel by P.D. James; a 2006 film, "[[Children of Men (film)\|Children of Men]]" by Alfonso Cuarón, is based on the novel.

	~~<div class="notice metadata" id="~~spoiler~~">'''[[Wikipedia:Spoiler warning\|Spoiler warning]]: ''This page and any other dealing with the content of works may have plot and/or ending details revealed.'''''~~		{{spoiler}}




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	~~==Film notes:==~~
	* gender (sigh): it's the women who are infertile
	* gender (sigh): when Theo walks into the office and everyone is watching the story about the death of the youngest man alive, there is a long pan over cubicle after cubicle of women weeping, staring at the screen; one woman has many little cute tschotchkes which i suppose we're to take as a sign of how women have been so destroyed by not being able to be mothers; why this row of cubicles is all women? men shown watching are stoic & passive; women are emotive.
	* gender (sigh): characterization - The story is all about Theo; women are ineffective, objects of action, crazy, or killed. Julian is an active & vibrant character; she's killed relatively early in the film. Otherwise female characters are plot points: things that move the action along helpfully, or are the subject of the action. Kee is given almost no characterization: a labor scene, she loves her baby, and one or maybe two brief moments of personalization. Miriam the midwife is "earnest" and loony and self-sacrificial; Marichka is crazy and self-sacrificial. Another woman who apparently in the past was awesome is now catatonic. The central villains are male -- dreadlocked violent guy & Luke & Syd. Central help is provided by fun self-sacrificial hippy guy. Cousin who gets the papers, Nigel, also male.
	* clearly hauling out the ghosts of concentration camps past and present -- Holocaust, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo -- and confronting anti-immigrant sentiment around; film takes place in England but read it in the US: a film by a Mexican director pointing out the inhumanity and horror of anti-immigrant sentiment by a rich mostly white country.
	* profoundly cynical & depressing - the state is thoroughly evil, but so is collective human action of any sort -- activism is dead and villainous: Theo gave it up; Julian was killed by comrades. hope is inexplicable -- the loss of children was mysterious, so is the recovery with one pregnancy. heroism is equivalent to self-sacrifice, and is left only for a few good souls -- and you never know who to trust because you can be betrayed (Luke, Syd)
	* great beauty in the film - the scene of the infant crying & the walk down the stairs; the devastation in the apartment building as it is being bombarded; the woman holding her child (pietá); lots of visual cues to famous works of art and catholic iconography - pietá, mary/joseph/baby jesus, etc.

	{{DEFAULTSORT:Children of Men, The}}		{{DEFAULTSORT:Children of Men, The}}

	[[Category:1992 publications]]		[[Category:1992 publications]]
	~~[[Category:2006 publications]]~~
	~~[[Category:Films]]~~
	[[Category:Novels]]		[[Category:Novels]]

Lquilter: cats

2007-03-12T06:13:19Z

cats

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	'''''The Children of Men''''' is a 1992 novel by P.D. James; a 2006 film, "Children of Men" by Alfonso Cuarón, is based on the novel.		'''''The Children of Men''''' is a 1992 novel by P.D. James; a 2006 film, "Children of Men" by Alfonso Cuarón, is based on the novel.




	<div class="notice metadata" id="spoiler">'''[[Wikipedia:Spoiler warning\|Spoiler warning]]: ''This page and any other dealing with the content of works may have plot and/or ending details revealed.'''''		<div class="notice metadata" id="spoiler">'''[[Wikipedia:Spoiler warning\|Spoiler warning]]: ''This page and any other dealing with the content of works may have plot and/or ending details revealed.'''''
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			==Film notes:==


	Film notes:
	* gender (sigh): it's the women who are infertile		* gender (sigh): it's the women who are infertile
	* gender (sigh): when Theo walks into the office and everyone is watching the story about the death of the youngest man alive, there is a long pan over cubicle after cubicle of women weeping, staring at the screen; one woman has many little cute tschotchkes which i suppose we're to take as a sign of how women have been so destroyed by not being able to be mothers; why this row of cubicles is all women? men shown watching are stoic & passive; women are emotive.		* gender (sigh): when Theo walks into the office and everyone is watching the story about the death of the youngest man alive, there is a long pan over cubicle after cubicle of women weeping, staring at the screen; one woman has many little cute tschotchkes which i suppose we're to take as a sign of how women have been so destroyed by not being able to be mothers; why this row of cubicles is all women? men shown watching are stoic & passive; women are emotive.
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	* great beauty in the film - the scene of the infant crying & the walk down the stairs; the devastation in the apartment building as it is being bombarded; the woman holding her child (pietá); lots of visual cues to famous works of art and catholic iconography - pietá, mary/joseph/baby jesus, etc.		* great beauty in the film - the scene of the infant crying & the walk down the stairs; the devastation in the apartment building as it is being bombarded; the woman holding her child (pietá); lots of visual cues to famous works of art and catholic iconography - pietá, mary/joseph/baby jesus, etc.

	[[Category:1992 publications~~\|Children of Men~~]]		{{DEFAULTSORT:Children of Men, The}}
	[[Category:2006 ~~films\|Children of Men~~]]
			[[Category:1992 publications]]
			[[Category:2006 publications]]
			[[Category:Films]]
			[[Category:Novels]]

Lquilter: cats

2007-02-18T04:25:08Z

cats

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	* great beauty in the film - the scene of the infant crying & the walk down the stairs; the devastation in the apartment building as it is being bombarded; the woman holding her child (pietá); lots of visual cues to famous works of art and catholic iconography - pietá, mary/joseph/baby jesus, etc.		* great beauty in the film - the scene of the infant crying & the walk down the stairs; the devastation in the apartment building as it is being bombarded; the woman holding her child (pietá); lots of visual cues to famous works of art and catholic iconography - pietá, mary/joseph/baby jesus, etc.

	[[Category:1992 ~~Publications~~\|Children of Men]]		[[Category:1992 publications\|Children of Men]]
	[[Category:2006 ~~Films~~\|Children of Men]]		[[Category:2006 films\|Children of Men]]

Lquilter: gender (sigh)

2007-02-07T16:17:04Z

gender (sigh)

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	Film notes:		Film notes:
	* it's the women who are infertile		* gender (sigh): it's the women who are infertile
	* when Theo walks into the office and everyone is watching the story about the death of the youngest man alive, there is a long pan over cubicle after cubicle of women weeping, staring at the screen; one woman has many little cute tschotchkes which i suppose we're to take as a sign of how women have been so destroyed by not being able to be mothers; why this row of cubicles is all women? men shown watching are stoic & passive; women are emotive.		* gender (sigh): when Theo walks into the office and everyone is watching the story about the death of the youngest man alive, there is a long pan over cubicle after cubicle of women weeping, staring at the screen; one woman has many little cute tschotchkes which i suppose we're to take as a sign of how women have been so destroyed by not being able to be mothers; why this row of cubicles is all women? men shown watching are stoic & passive; women are emotive.
	* characterization - The story is all about Theo; women are ineffective, objects of action, crazy, or killed. Julian is an active & vibrant character; she's killed relatively early in the film. Otherwise female characters are plot points: things that move the action along helpfully, or are the subject of the action. Kee is given almost no characterization: a labor scene, she loves her baby, and one or maybe two brief moments of personalization. Miriam the midwife is "earnest" and loony and self-sacrificial; Marichka is crazy and self-sacrificial. Another woman who apparently in the past was awesome is now catatonic. The central villains are male -- dreadlocked violent guy & Luke & Syd. Central help is provided by fun self-sacrificial hippy guy. Cousin who gets the papers, Nigel, also male.		* gender (sigh): characterization - The story is all about Theo; women are ineffective, objects of action, crazy, or killed. Julian is an active & vibrant character; she's killed relatively early in the film. Otherwise female characters are plot points: things that move the action along helpfully, or are the subject of the action. Kee is given almost no characterization: a labor scene, she loves her baby, and one or maybe two brief moments of personalization. Miriam the midwife is "earnest" and loony and self-sacrificial; Marichka is crazy and self-sacrificial. Another woman who apparently in the past was awesome is now catatonic. The central villains are male -- dreadlocked violent guy & Luke & Syd. Central help is provided by fun self-sacrificial hippy guy. Cousin who gets the papers, Nigel, also male.
	* clearly hauling out the ghosts of concentration camps past and present -- Holocaust, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo -- and confronting anti-immigrant sentiment around; film takes place in England but read it in the US: a film by a Mexican director pointing out the inhumanity and horror of anti-immigrant sentiment by a rich mostly white country.		* clearly hauling out the ghosts of concentration camps past and present -- Holocaust, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo -- and confronting anti-immigrant sentiment around; film takes place in England but read it in the US: a film by a Mexican director pointing out the inhumanity and horror of anti-immigrant sentiment by a rich mostly white country.
	* profoundly cynical & depressing - the state is thoroughly evil, but so is collective human action of any sort -- activism is dead and villainous: Theo gave it up; Julian was killed by comrades. hope is inexplicable -- the loss of children was mysterious, so is the recovery with one pregnancy. heroism is equivalent to self-sacrifice, and is left only for a few good souls -- and you never know who to trust because you can be betrayed (Luke, Syd)		* profoundly cynical & depressing - the state is thoroughly evil, but so is collective human action of any sort -- activism is dead and villainous: Theo gave it up; Julian was killed by comrades. hope is inexplicable -- the loss of children was mysterious, so is the recovery with one pregnancy. heroism is equivalent to self-sacrifice, and is left only for a few good souls -- and you never know who to trust because you can be betrayed (Luke, Syd)

Lquilter: cats, template

2007-02-07T16:16:17Z

cats, template

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	'''''The Children of Men''''' is a 1992 novel by P.D. James; a 2006 film, "Children of Men" by Alfonso Cuarón, is based on the novel.		'''''The Children of Men''''' is a 1992 novel by P.D. James; a 2006 film, "Children of Men" by Alfonso Cuarón, is based on the novel.

	{{spoiler}]


			<div class="notice metadata" id="spoiler">'''[[Wikipedia:Spoiler warning\|Spoiler warning]]: ''This page and any other dealing with the content of works may have plot and/or ending details revealed.'''''




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	* great beauty in the film - the scene of the infant crying & the walk down the stairs; the devastation in the apartment building as it is being bombarded; the woman holding her child (pietá); lots of visual cues to famous works of art and catholic iconography - pietá, mary/joseph/baby jesus, etc.		* great beauty in the film - the scene of the infant crying & the walk down the stairs; the devastation in the apartment building as it is being bombarded; the woman holding her child (pietá); lots of visual cues to famous works of art and catholic iconography - pietá, mary/joseph/baby jesus, etc.

	[[Category:1992 ~~novels~~\|Children of Men]]		[[Category:1992 Publications\|Children of Men]]
	[[Category:2006 ~~films~~\|Children of Men]]		[[Category:2006 Films\|Children of Men]]

Lquilter: New page: '''''The Children of Men''''' is a 1992 novel by P.D. James; a 2006 film, "Children of Men" by Alfonso Cuarón, is based on the novel. {{spoiler}] Film notes: * it's the women who are i...

2007-02-07T16:14:14Z

New page: '''''The Children of Men''''' is a 1992 novel by P.D. James; a 2006 film, "Children of Men" by Alfonso Cuarón, is based on the novel. {{spoiler}] Film notes: * it's the women who are i...

New page

'''''The Children of Men''''' is a 1992 novel by P.D. James; a 2006 film, "Children of Men" by Alfonso Cuarón, is based on the novel.

{{spoiler}]

Film notes:
* it's the women who are infertile
* when Theo walks into the office and everyone is watching the story about the death of the youngest man alive, there is a long pan over cubicle after cubicle of women weeping, staring at the screen; one woman has many little cute tschotchkes which i suppose we're to take as a sign of how women have been so destroyed by not being able to be mothers; why this row of cubicles is all women? men shown watching are stoic & passive; women are emotive.
* characterization - The story is all about Theo; women are ineffective, objects of action, crazy, or killed. Julian is an active & vibrant character; she's killed relatively early in the film. Otherwise female characters are plot points: things that move the action along helpfully, or are the subject of the action. Kee is given almost no characterization: a labor scene, she loves her baby, and one or maybe two brief moments of personalization. Miriam the midwife is "earnest" and loony and self-sacrificial; Marichka is crazy and self-sacrificial. Another woman who apparently in the past was awesome is now catatonic. The central villains are male -- dreadlocked violent guy & Luke & Syd. Central help is provided by fun self-sacrificial hippy guy. Cousin who gets the papers, Nigel, also male.
* clearly hauling out the ghosts of concentration camps past and present -- Holocaust, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo -- and confronting anti-immigrant sentiment around; film takes place in England but read it in the US: a film by a Mexican director pointing out the inhumanity and horror of anti-immigrant sentiment by a rich mostly white country.
* profoundly cynical & depressing - the state is thoroughly evil, but so is collective human action of any sort -- activism is dead and villainous: Theo gave it up; Julian was killed by comrades. hope is inexplicable -- the loss of children was mysterious, so is the recovery with one pregnancy. heroism is equivalent to self-sacrifice, and is left only for a few good souls -- and you never know who to trust because you can be betrayed (Luke, Syd)
* great beauty in the film - the scene of the infant crying & the walk down the stairs; the devastation in the apartment building as it is being bombarded; the woman holding her child (pietá); lots of visual cues to famous works of art and catholic iconography - pietá, mary/joseph/baby jesus, etc.

[[Category:1992 novels|Children of Men]]
[[Category:2006 films|Children of Men]]