I love movies! I have a top 200 list of my own. Cool Hand Luke was my favorite movie for many years but it was recently replaced by Children of Men. Some people don't like this movie and it seems to fall into the meme "you either love it or hate it". But that is bullshit. Bullshit. Children of Men is a mirror, if you don't like it you don't like what you see in the mirror. You don't want to accept the fact that you, yes you are killing our species. Many people who are Christians or Republican don't like this movie. I have an online friend who said "worst movie ever". He is both a Republican and a Christian. I wondered for some time why this movie is so repugnent to "those people" and I think I know why. The main premise of the movie is that humanity becomes infertile. That premise, in a roundabout way, denies the existance of God, a future and the supreme impotance of "me". Me. The most important and signifigant moment in history is "me". Without "me" there is nothing. "Me" has no future unless "me" reproduces so by taking that away "me" becomes unimportant, trivial, temporary, meaningless. This is why religion is so popular because it makes "me" immortal. How could something as important as "me" be finite? Children of Men tells us we can live on as a species if we are willing to sacrifice "me".
I love movies! I have a top 200 list of my own. Cool Hand Luke was my favorite movie for many years but it was recently replaced by Children of Men. Some people don't like this movie and it seems to fall into the meme "you either love it or hate it". But that is bullshit. Bullshit. Children of Men is a mirror, if you don't like it you don't like what you see in the mirror. You don't want to accept the fact that you, yes you are killing our species. Many people who are Christians or Republican don't like this movie. I have an online friend who said "worst movie ever". He is both a Republican and a Christian. I wondered for some time why this movie is so repugnent to "those people" and I think I know why. The main premise of the movie is that humanity becomes infertile. That premise, in a roundabout way, denies the existance of God, a future and the supreme impotance of "me". Me. The most important and signifigant moment in history is "me". Without "me" there is nothing. "Me" has no future unless "me" reproduces so by taking that away "me" becomes unimportant, trivial, temporary, meaningless. This is why religion is so popular because it makes "me" immortal. How could something as important as "me" be finite? Children of Men tells us we can live on as a species if we are willing to sacrifice "me".
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