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Stories Are Soul Food

Children of Men, a Very SASF Christmas Movie | (Ep. 202)

Stories Are Soul Food

Canon Press

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8787 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

You thought the Look At Moving Pictures Club was dead? LAMPC is baaaaaack, and the guys are discussing one of their favorites:

- Why Alfonso Cuaron's "Children of Men" is one of the best movies of the 21st century; - Why Children of Men is a Christmas movie (whether or not P.D. James intended it in the novel); - What you missed in this movie; - How Alfonso Cuaron (the director) crafted his best scenes; - the very worst scene in Children of Men; And lots more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

If you had to pick one movie that touches what our culture is getting entirely wrong.

0:04.0

Yeah.

0:05.0

Children and Men does it.

0:06.0

Craftsmanship on the technical level, this one is right up there.

0:09.0

Jumping into a bus with the camera, blood ends up on the lens.

0:13.0

The blood is carried on the lens through the sequence.

0:17.0

But as I was reflecting on the scenes, it feels like you're inside. How did they do it?

0:22.5

Can you name a better film?

0:24.0

Hmm.

0:27.0

Met a ghost of a king on the road when I first fell. Fire burning to my knees to my knees.

0:33.7

I fell. Made a ghost of a king on a row.

0:36.2

What are we doing here in this here, Lamp?

0:38.2

We're discussing Children of Men, which is one of my favorite films.

0:41.4

Yeah.

0:42.3

And I've seen it more times than I can count.

0:45.2

But yesterday I rewatched it with my girls and my wife.

0:48.2

And it remains the good stuff.

0:51.9

This is an incredibly potent film.

0:55.7

Well, jumping into it, what, what, uh, I've, I, of course, am going to go the very religious

1:00.9

route with the children of men being the verse from Psalm 93. I think what it is where, where they

1:07.3

discuss it as, uh, yeah, thou turnest man to destruction and sayest return these children of men.

1:13.8

And I'm wondering, what's going on with P.D. James, I don't know, writing such a religious story.

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