Beautifully sad comment on our future

Rating: 10/10 (30 May 2007)

Prior to watching this movie, I'd heard mostly negative comments about it, but thought that it was an absolutely beautiful film. The film shows the struggle of reluctant hero trying to protect a miraculously pregnant woman in a futuristic world where no one has conceived in almost twenty years. The film was full of wonderful cameos by Julianne Moore, Michael Caine, and a wonderful performance by Clive Owen in the leading role. The movie is a comment on our current climate with an interesting proposal about our future that states itself in a non-forceful way, and the camera work, at least from my ignorant perspective, was some of the most beautiful I've seen.
There were long, sweeping shots that were beautifully choreographed (one notable several minute scene is obviously all done in one perfect take because you can see the blood spattered on the camera lens), and there is so much (so much) in this film that is said without words. In fact, I would say that there was more said without words than in the scarce dialogue, and the scene with Clive Owen walking a frightened mother through a crowd of armed men toward the end of the movie brought me to tears with absolutely no words said. I had a feeling that I would really love this movie, despite the opinions I'd heard, and I was right. It was a beautiful film.