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Originally Posted by Agamemnon
To the point that Children of Men could be considered a 'better' movie than Star Wars? Do you think more people favour the former over the latter? It'd be news to me I guess... the world has changed a lot since I was a kid I suppose... I'm surprised Children made the top 50, I slot it just above Matrix 3.
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You can't even compare the two movies. To me, this is the equivalent of the question: Which is better the Harry Potter series or 1984? You can't really say which one is better, but it's easy to say one is vastly more important. Children of Men's depiction of the future was sobering in its realism but also deeply facsinating in the less realistic metaphoric human project and the lack of any new births for years. To take the movie at face value is to get only a 1/10th of the exprience. The Human Project was left to be so ambigious for a reason, it was not simply bad writing. The screenwriters didn't want to give us any realistic depiction of the Human Project IMO. They wanted it to seem to the viewer as it seemed to the people in the movie. A salvation. They wanted to end the movie with idealism, not realism.
That's my take anyway.