Movie Critic Uses Children of Men Review to Bag On Video Games
I like to read reviews of movies after I see them. Not because I'm afraid of spoilers or anything like that. I like to use other opinions and interpretations to help me better understand how I feel about a movie or video game I've just experienced.
Last week I bounced over to Rotten Tomatoes to check out some of the criticism inspired by Children of Men. This quote from a local movie critic jumped out at me.
My first thought was, "Where the hell does a video game pop up in Children of Men?" Then I realized that Covert was referring to the scene where Theo Faron enters the world of the wealth to acquire transit papers -- the bit with the battered statue of David, the reference to Pink Floyd's Animals and the King Crimson music in the background.
While Theo and his brother are dining, we meet who we assume is Theo's nephew -- a distracted, moody youth jacked in to some kind of device. As a reader of sci-fi I assumed the kid was connected to the web like characters in cyberpunk novels. For a split second we get a glimpse of the guy scrolling rapid fire through content -- like he's consuming mass amounts of text messages.
Like much of the movie Cuaron leaves much up to interpretation. We don't see enough of what the kid is doing, but Covert immediately assumed he was a gamer because of his glazed look. Not a surprising reaction from the film crowd -- who are as befuddled by video games as the monkeys in the opening of 2001 were confused by the concept of a bone as a tool.
Last week I bounced over to Rotten Tomatoes to check out some of the criticism inspired by Children of Men. This quote from a local movie critic jumped out at me.
That's from Colin Covert's review of Children of Men from the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune.
There is a stark absence of gadget porn in this futuristic adventure; the most advanced device we see is a video game, innovation at its most trivial.
My first thought was, "Where the hell does a video game pop up in Children of Men?" Then I realized that Covert was referring to the scene where Theo Faron enters the world of the wealth to acquire transit papers -- the bit with the battered statue of David, the reference to Pink Floyd's Animals and the King Crimson music in the background.
While Theo and his brother are dining, we meet who we assume is Theo's nephew -- a distracted, moody youth jacked in to some kind of device. As a reader of sci-fi I assumed the kid was connected to the web like characters in cyberpunk novels. For a split second we get a glimpse of the guy scrolling rapid fire through content -- like he's consuming mass amounts of text messages.
Like much of the movie Cuaron leaves much up to interpretation. We don't see enough of what the kid is doing, but Covert immediately assumed he was a gamer because of his glazed look. Not a surprising reaction from the film crowd -- who are as befuddled by video games as the monkeys in the opening of 2001 were confused by the concept of a bone as a tool.
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