'Children of Men' is full of carefully planned long takes, but the movie's most memorable shot was a complete accident.
The Big Picture Director Alfonso Cuarón is an acclaimed filmmaker with an ever-evolving use of the long take, a sequence when the camera doesn’t stop filming as if the action is happening in real time.
While Children of Men is a bleak look at the human population when it has fallen into war, hatred, and distrust, it’s also filmed beautifully, with a great eye for style to turn the story into an immersive experience. Alfonso Cuarón and Emmanuel Lubezki wanted to depict a realistic version of a near future reduced to a gloomy hellscape.
As with Julian's death, Cuarón and Lubezki's efforts to not sensationalize the violence are evident again in what soon happens to another one of Theo's allies, the eccentric, pot-smoking, Jasper . Around the time Children of Men was released, Michael Caine was in the middle of playing one of his most well-known modern characters, Alfred Pennyworth in Christopher Nolan's Batman series.
When Theo hides in a derelict bus that has been turned into a shelter, he finds no safety when gunfire pelts against the side of the vehicle, smashing away the glass that remains of the windows. One of the bullets hits a refugee as Theo passes by, the man’s blood splattering onto the camera lens and remaining there as Theo attempts to head into an apartment building where Kee is.
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