children of men
Which is a movie, in case you didn't google to find out.
To use the description of the streaming site i used, "In 2027, in a chaotic world in which humans can no longer procreate, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea, where her child's birth may help scientists save the future of humankind.", which is pretty much all there is to it.
There is no great twist or plan or wondrous mystery. They do not try to impress you with scientific facts and theories and ideas - it is not Matrix or Star Wars. Yet it feels like a theatrical masterpiece that blows you away with simple acting, lighting and a brilliant soundtrack.
The show brings out emotions that you don't usually grasp, that rarely finds reason to arise. It asks you what would happen if the world suddenly had to children, the cry of a baby, the nurturing of the young. How would the hearts of humanity harden without the softening warmth of a childs plump fist?
The world falls to chaos in a prolonged armageddon. For centuries people imagined plague and meteor storms that would wipe us out in days, not a hopeless, inevitable extinction. The dread that when you die you have left no heirs, that noone else has left heirs and that in a few decades all that would be left to tell that we were here are finger worn walls and smog. Who would have imagined.
Anyhow thats it for the post-movie shock. National Service looms, where i shall prepare to fix my body haha.
To use the description of the streaming site i used, "In 2027, in a chaotic world in which humans can no longer procreate, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea, where her child's birth may help scientists save the future of humankind.", which is pretty much all there is to it.
There is no great twist or plan or wondrous mystery. They do not try to impress you with scientific facts and theories and ideas - it is not Matrix or Star Wars. Yet it feels like a theatrical masterpiece that blows you away with simple acting, lighting and a brilliant soundtrack.
The show brings out emotions that you don't usually grasp, that rarely finds reason to arise. It asks you what would happen if the world suddenly had to children, the cry of a baby, the nurturing of the young. How would the hearts of humanity harden without the softening warmth of a childs plump fist?
The world falls to chaos in a prolonged armageddon. For centuries people imagined plague and meteor storms that would wipe us out in days, not a hopeless, inevitable extinction. The dread that when you die you have left no heirs, that noone else has left heirs and that in a few decades all that would be left to tell that we were here are finger worn walls and smog. Who would have imagined.
Anyhow thats it for the post-movie shock. National Service looms, where i shall prepare to fix my body haha.
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