Gets more impressive every time I see it...

Rating: 9/10 (17 May 2018)

Some movies just take my breath away. Some movies just leave me behind in awe.
"Children of Men" does all that to me. And mind you, I have seen it now over 5 times, and honestly it does get more impressive every time I see it...
"Children of Men" has got a heart. A warm endearing heart that pulsates louder than the exploding bombs in this movie. A lust for life runs through this picture that is like an adrenaline shot.
Superlatives dont suffice to describe this gritty, violent, bleak and depressive story about a world in which a virus has caused an epidemic of child deaths at birth. No children have been born in years. One girl only, an illegal immigrant girl, has gotten pregnant and she carries the weight of the world on her shoulders because the existence of humanity is at stake here. If her new born dies, humans as a species, will cease to exist. If she can manage to keep her newborn alive, mankind has got a chance for survival.
Clive Owen plays the man who accompanies this young pregnant girl literally through a battlefield, towards a safe haven. I think it is one of his best performances. Michael Caine and Julliane Moore play supporting roles that are to die for as well. The acting in this picture is sublime!
Alfonso Quaron directed, wrote and edited this picture. He has also made "Gravity" (with Sandra Bullock in space), which has won numerous Oscars. This director is a movie genius. He only makes 1 movie in every 4-5 years, but he creates classics EVERY time.
"Children of Men" has got a natural beauty and rhythm to it, that is astonishingly impressive. How many times have I seen movies that flow so seemingly effortlessly? Not that I want to get technical, but this movie is as real as it gets in front AND behind the camera. The photography of this picture is Oscar worthy. Just follow closely how long the scenes last without ANY cut in it at all. While bombs explode, buildings are tore down, when people storm the streets, minutes and minutes go by without any cut in the scenes. That takes an effort similar to an orchestration of a classical symphony. It must have taken enormous efforts and time to make this picture as ravishing as it has become. "Children of Men" has that quality of real life imagery, so real that you just forget you are watching a movie. It is enticing, worrisome, suspenseful, heartwarming and thrilling.
And still I feel I havent giving it enough praise. A classic can have that effect on me. I wanna conclude with a statement of the director himself:Alfonso Cuarón has stated that he "didn't want to make a film that ends when the credits roll. He wanted to make a film that, when the final credits roll...that's really the beginning of the film".
This movie left me behind with a feeling of bewilderment about the future of mankind and the disgraceful world we live in now...