Found a posting about a review of Children of Men on one of the blogs on TheStranger.com. Then I wrote this comment. Yay for me!

I agree that the BR [Blade Runner] comaprisons are irrelevant. Just a marketing agency understanding that a lot of people like that film passionately. I’m sure the response they intend to create is, “I bet it’s not as good as BR, but I’ll go see it just to make sure.” So cynical! Disturbing to know that BR-enthusiasts are a demographic!

On another note. This quote in Yair’s review bothers me: “Doesn’t it create in me a reality more real than itself?”

Just un-answerable deconstructionist gibberish. That’s simply how fiction works: the better it’s done, the more you believe it. The only way for it to be convincing is for you to fill in the gaps with your own imagination.

The more cuts there are in a film, the less like reality it appears to the eye. There were takes that were so long in “Children of Men” that I nearly passed out from forgetting to breathe. The director wisely too inspiration from Brian DePalma and the like. I think the future of creating reality in filmmaking is about longer and longer takes that make the action appear as fluid as possible. Not just a backlash against music video editing techniques, it is technologically easier to do that ever before.