Children of Men

Well, I aint the type to like futuristic movies - movies based in the year 2050, 2027, etc. Usually because it involves some sci-fi. This one didnt have much sci-fi but was based on a theme which was too difficult to believe (18 yr old person being youngest person on Earth) nevertheless a very good imagination considering so many miscarriages happening these days. As always, I will not reveal the story here. But the thing I liked about this movie very much was the technicalities of movie-making. Story is one thing but technicality is another thing altogether. Its very rare to get a good story with brilliant technicality. In this movie, there is 1 scene which lasts for 4 minutes and 1 more for 5.5 minutes. And its not just a scene where 2 people are talking. Both are high-charged scenes where there more than 100 people acting at any point of time, people are falling, crying, laughing, bemoaning, shouting, fighting, shooting their guns, throwing stones, blood is pouring out, dying, a car is rolling down in fire blocking the road, blood spurts onto the camera, the hero and heroine show a magical act of throwing ball from one mouth to the other without the use of hands, cops are involved, etc. Its just mind blowing how a scene like that can be shot in one long stretch, like real-time, without the director saying 'Cut'!! Also, there was this scene of a baby being born. This scene is out of the world. They actually showed the baby coming out of the mother's body!! Along with the umbilical cord and everything! I mean, there is a limit to showing reality!! All in all, its worth watching for the technicalities more than the story, which at times seem dubious.