Children+of+Men

Class Notes 9/11 (recorded by Joey O'Brien):

Why movie was liked? - humor - that it didn’t have a happy ending - never knew who was going to die next - very suspenseful - how the camera follows Theo and the other characters - very realistic (blood on the camera) - how gritty it was First Scene - Very disorienting - Women carrying arm after explosion (much like saving private ryan) - Everyone in the very first picture is watching, focused, sad, depressed, - No one who is very young - A lot of animals in the movie (pets) - Future- very rundown city References compared <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">- The Queen (The boy with the flowers) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">- Schindler’s List (stuff being thrown out of windows) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">More About movie <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">- a movie you have to pay attention to <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">o talking about the photojournalist being tortured <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Car Scene <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">- They plan to kill Jillian <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">- Luke (The Driver) slows down so the car that’s on fire can come down the hill

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Class Notes 9/13 (recorded by Maddie Stephens):


 * __Children of Men__** Not word of the day: buoy


 * How did people react to baby’s death?**

Reminder of everyone’s fait

Scared for the other young people left

-Why do people grieve for people’s death that they don’t know?

Role models

Relate to them

Died young- reminds us how we could die at any moment

-People don’t like to think about death a lot

-9/11

-Shooting

People want to connect themselves to important things


 * Rick/Theo**

Comparison

Don’t have many people that they’re close to

Dethatched attitudes, cenacle

Tries to cut out bad things

Also cut out joy and happiness

South Park reference

Had woman ask them to do something that was hard for them to do


 * Violence**

See the process of dying

Don’t try to make things look real, ends up looking more real

One shot scenes

Not very dramatic killing scenes, it is what it is

Consequences to the violence

In real life, people are surprised that getting shot hurts