Set the controls for your diaries: Athens – 4/6/2022… Nick Mason et al will be playing live the best early Pink Floyd songs in Athens Technopolis venue. Until then, enjoy this live performance of “One of These Days”…
Tag: Pink Floyd
“Children of Men” is a 2006 sci-fi drama by Alfonso Cuarón, with Julianne Moore, Clive Owen, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Michael Caine. It depicts a dystopian and racist England in 2027, where the whole mankind is about to extinct because women have suddenly and without any reason become infertile. Chaos rules outside UK. The borders are closed and illegal immigrants are being persecuted and exterminated. “Ordinary and legal ” people live inside a police state in a don’t ask, don’t tell basis. We watch one of these “ordinary” people, a cynical, former activist who agrees to help some “terrorists” to transport a miraculously pregnant black woman to a ship called “Tomorrow”… I enjoyed this movie for three reasons:
1) the astonishing scenario and superb cinematography. For instance, the art archive scene is brilliant. Cuarón has even added a flying pig balloon as a clear homage to Pink Floyd’s Animals.
2) the acting of Michael Caine as a retired hippie and
3) the “world gone astray” and depressing in many places scenes the movies depicts. Dystopian yes, but aren’t we gradually getting there ?
Watch the trailer and grab the DVD. IMHO, one of the best movies ever.
