Children Of Men

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2023

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Amy & Paul get suave for 2006’s Alfonso Cuarón dystopia Children Of Men! They praise the very human performances, learn whether ringing in the ears really means your ear cells are dying, and discuss why the film’s mind-melting long takes are more than just a flashy technique. Plus: Remember Clive Owen’s BMW ads? Next week, we’re wrapping up Listener’s Choice month by hearing from the listeners! Send us your vote for our bracket at tinyurl.com/unspooledvote, or leave us a voicemail making your case at 424-419-5745. You can join the conversation for this series on Paul’s Discord at https://discord.gg/ZwtygZGTa6. Learn more about the show at unspooledpod.com, follow us on Twitter @unspooled and Instagram @unspooledpod, and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or where you listen to podcasts.

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0:00.0	The year is 2006, and let's pour one out for the youngest wanker on Earth who just died.
0:07.5	The movie, Children of Men.
0:29.5	Hello everyone and welcome to on Spoold.
0:35.3	Hello everybody, I am Paul Sheer joined by my friend and film critic Amy Nicholson as we are going to spend this episode talking about the Clive Owen,
0:46.0	Alphonse Quarong classic Children of Men, a film picked by you the last in our series of listener picks for our fifth anniversary.
0:55.9	I got to say all great picks got a great email this week from someone who told me that Fuzz.
1:02.8	We were debating like what does Fuzz mean and hot Fuzz.
1:05.9	He said that is a slang and a negative slang term for the police.
1:11.3	So it has a negative connotation.
1:13.7	Oh right.
1:15.3	So that's right.
1:18.1	So I just wanted to clear that up a couple of weeks late but better late than never.
1:21.8	And I also want to give a shout out to listener strong look DJ on Instagram who said actually has an FYI knife crime.
1:30.3	I think that I was like knife crime the way they talk about it here is really serious in the UK.
1:34.4	Lots of gang violence teenagers stabbing each other.
1:36.9	It is definitely not as quaint as it might sound on paper.
1:40.8	Thank you for that.
1:41.6	Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
1:42.9	I wanted to set the record straight about knife crime.
1:46.4	Well Amy today we're going to talk about a movie that I think is all crime bomb crime.
1:52.0	I mean it is a society that does even crime make a difference because everything has gone to
2:00.9	utter and complete shit.
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