Tonight's home cinema experience opened with The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), in which they apparently expected their audience to have grown up slightly compared to the first one, which helped to make it more conducive to the willing suspension of disbelief and thereby an even better movie extravaganza than the first - hugely enjoyable, I thought 
After that, a film which I hadn't heard of until Peter Watts tweeted about its excellent use of London locations the other day: Children of Men (2006), set in a dystopian near-future in which the human race has become infertile, and an alcoholic journalist is dragooned by his ex-wife into helping smuggle the only pregnant woman in the world, who happens to be black, out of Britain to avoid the brutal clutches of the government.
To be honest, said government sounded very much like Theresa May's lot in their attitudes towards people they suspect of being a bit foreign in their parentage. So although it's supposed to be set ten years or so from now, aspects of it sounded more like the news over the past few weeks
It also occurred to me that some scenes of alleyways full of crap, indicative of dystopian social collapse, looked much as similar locations do in 1970s London TV plays such as “The Knowledge” and “Bar Mitzvah Boy”. So perhaps our expectations of the dingier corners of the capital have risen a little in the last few decades
Anyway, it's a bloody excellent film, and I recommend it highly
Oh, and it also features Michael Caine with long hair and a beard, living in a house in the woods and growing dope for a living
Goodnight all
After that, a film which I hadn't heard of until Peter Watts tweeted about its excellent use of London locations the other day: Children of Men (2006), set in a dystopian near-future in which the human race has become infertile, and an alcoholic journalist is dragooned by his ex-wife into helping smuggle the only pregnant woman in the world, who happens to be black, out of Britain to avoid the brutal clutches of the government.
To be honest, said government sounded very much like Theresa May's lot in their attitudes towards people they suspect of being a bit foreign in their parentage. So although it's supposed to be set ten years or so from now, aspects of it sounded more like the news over the past few weeks
It also occurred to me that some scenes of alleyways full of crap, indicative of dystopian social collapse, looked much as similar locations do in 1970s London TV plays such as “The Knowledge” and “Bar Mitzvah Boy”. So perhaps our expectations of the dingier corners of the capital have risen a little in the last few decades
Anyway, it's a bloody excellent film, and I recommend it highly
Oh, and it also features Michael Caine with long hair and a beard, living in a house in the woods and growing dope for a living
Goodnight all
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