Film has unique resources of sight and sound to penetrate and influence our perception, emotions, and even decisions. It’s unmistakably the single most powerful art form of our time.
Film-makers, therefore, can take us places we could never visit–interior and exterior landscapes. To adapt a famous phrase of Emily Dickinson: “There’s nothing like a film [...]

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Picking up on Chesterton’s insightful quip that an atheist is not a man who believes in nothing, but a man who’ll believe anything, David Theroux has written a wonderful article on the relationship of Faith and Reason.
And oh, by the way, I just got home from a second viewing of Children of Men. Forgive me, [...]

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Another review and interview or two that deal with the religious element in the film:

Cuaron directs A-List in Children of Men

Charlotte Weekly review

Jeffrey Overstreet’s CT review

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Here’s a good one from Infuze magazine. FWIW, I had exactly the same reaction to the persistent use of the seeming cuss, “Jesus Christ!”–it was far more desperate prayer than curse, and I can’t think for a moment that this wasn’t conscious on Cuaron’s part.
Anthony Scaramone of First Things, however, apparently hated the movie, but [...]

Tags: Children of Men, culture of death, movies

This is an amazing film, both cinematically and thematically. But it’s the theme I want to touch on quickly, because I almost can’t believe it.
A number of critics have mentioned the film’s “dystopian vision”, but I have yet to see anyone connect director Alphonse Cuaron’s vision with what appear’s to this viewer as a seering [...]

Tags: Children of Men, culture of death, movies