{"id":481,"date":"2007-01-05T19:48:04","date_gmt":"2007-01-06T00:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/womantalk.wordpress.com\/2007\/01\/05\/children-of-god\/"},"modified":"2007-01-05T19:48:04","modified_gmt":"2007-01-06T00:48:04","slug":"children-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=481","title":{"rendered":"Children of Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Children of Men <\/strong>(<a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0206634\/\" target=\"_blank\">imdb 8.0\/10.0<\/a>) was pretty dang good. Very dark in a Brazil or Bladerunner way with timorous rays of hope shining through. Interesting to think about how differently people might act if there were no more children. There is a sense of fatality throughout the movie; a sense that nothing matters because everybody is going to die. But whether it is year 2027 or 2007 each of us is going to die, right? So, how much of a difference would it make to me whether I were the last generation? A lot I suppose, but then &#8230; does that mean that I am living with a conscious sense of the next generation? I guess it really highlighted for me, that in many ways that we (Americans at least) <em>are already<\/em> living as if we were the last generation.<\/p>\n<p>I give it an A.<\/p>\n<p>I know it appears that I give a lot of movies good reviews, but keep in mind that I only bother to go see movies that have had a lot of good cyber buzz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children of Men (imdb 8.0\/10.0) was pretty dang good. Very dark in a Brazil or Bladerunner way with timorous rays of hope shining through. Interesting to think about how differently people might act if there were no more children. There &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=481\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}