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The Filmcast

Bonus Ep. – Children of Men Retrospective

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4.64K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2016

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Children of Men is 10 years old, and yet it seems more relevant than ever. In this bonus episode, Devindra chats with Anthony Ha, senior editor at TechCrunch, and Dwayne De Freitas, co-host of The Drill Down podcast, about the film’s themes and lasting impact. And perhaps we’ll figure out how to find hope in a hopeless world along the way. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. Also, like us on Facebook!

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Hadeh Dwayne.

1:01.0

Hadeh Dwayne, what's going on?

1:02.0

Hadeh Dwayne is also a sci-fi writer, so I'm actually pretty outmatched here when it comes

1:06.7

to people who know what they're talking about, when it comes to fiction and narrative

1:11.0

and stuff, but I'll try, because Children of Men is one of my favorite films ever.

1:17.0

Probably my favorite, it kind of switches between Children of Men and Old Boy depending

1:21.6

on the mood in the day or whatever, but it's definitely my favorite Quarron film.

1:27.6

And yeah, the more I think about it, it's a film I've always loved, but it's particularly

1:32.2

relevant today as we're approaching, yeah, the presidency of Donald Trump, the insanity

1:38.4

of everything else happening around the world.

1:41.1

There have been a lot of articles talking about how prescient this movie was, and yeah,

1:45.4

I just wanted to talk about that in the legacy of the film, and yeah, see if we can learn

1:50.1

anything from it, and yeah, maybe it'll teach us something moving forward too.

1:55.6

So first question for you guys, what is your relationship with this film?

1:58.6

Do you remember when you first saw it?

2:01.0

Yes, totally.

2:03.0

I was actually with a friend who's actually, he's a PA and kind of a genius cinematographer

2:09.8

for some of the HBO productions like Boardwalk Empire, but we were in the Pavilion Cinema

2:15.0

in Brooklyn, and I think we basically saw a bunch of movies that day.

2:20.7

The dearly departed Pavilion Cinema, it's dead, it's I can walk to it now, but it's

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