Children of Men is one of the best-directed movies ever. The plot (why would a society on the verge of death hate refugees) is very weak.
Not impugning motive here, but I would put 3 movies from the same year, 2006: The Lives of Others, Pan's Labyrinth and Children of Men.https://twitter.com/jpodhoretz/status/873197246749306880 …
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couldn't you classify depopulating parts of the U.S. in a similar (though clearly not as dramatic) way?
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no-screenwriters grafted an open-borders polemic onto a society-is-dying-due-to-birth-dearth plot and the two made no sense together
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I dunno, seems like other parts of world were worse off than the UK in that film, and in any event irrationality is not always unrealistic
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(by the by, agree that "The Lives of Others" is tremendous)
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Understood why NYT wouldn't honor "Lives of Others" -- abt monitoring of German citizens by Stasi - 2 close 2 potential "unmasking" scandal
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