1:40 "We couldn't save La Pieta, smashed up before we got there!" This is a world with no children, and the statue of a mother holding her dead son (Jesus) is bound to be broken out of anger for what is haooening in the story.
The beauty is the contrast between the british clinical modern society, laced with the posh class system, juxtaposed against the absolute degradation of society. This one scene tells you 8% of all you need to know is going on. People, even inner city london people, are living in quarters close to slums, there is a tenuous middle class of professionals like Theo who live too close to that slum for comfort, and then there's the military creating a ring of steel around the elite along the parade. Even the utility of the "ark" is a joke. WHy preserve art if there will be no humans in 50 years time to enjoy it? It's just another bit of ego stroking and distraction.
@@joeking5679 It's interesting because the year after this we got There Will Be Blood, and the next year No Country For Old Men, which are two of the best films of the century imo(as is this one).
Love how every time I see this scene I notice little details. This time it's the Banksy at 1:05. The juxtaposition of the cops kissing next to the armed guard is too good.
I loved this song upon hearing it as a child back in the 70s. I always felt it had a prophetic quality to it, and hearing it play in this movie just gave me goosebumps like never before.
From a truly visionary director. I love the relationship of the sounds with the KC track, the tuctuc exhaust mimics the tom toms on the drum kit, the screech of the car tyres as he arrives fits with the track, the band on the mall, .... its brilliant
My fan theory is that Alex was in prison or involved with gang activity hence the street/prison tattoos on his hand and neck. He has a deep scare on his face which to me resembles a bullet wound, perhaps he was a spoiled powerful rich kid with no real direction or purpose in life and took pleasure in criminal life and violent behavior. Since his dad is so powerful he usually always gets out of legal trouble somehow. Maybe he eventually got shot in the face and became mentally or physically disabled from it. Now he lives a life of house arrest and probation, maybe apart of his sentencing is to have a mandatory prescription to a mood balancer kinda like future riddaline but with no FDA oversight. No he lives docile life heavily medicated to suppress his violent behavior as hence why Nigile easily freaked out when his son wasn’t complying to his mandatory meds.
Theo's negging in this film is really intelligently wrought. Watch thru and pay attention to the several times he says harmless little things that all the same totally undermine the posture of the character hes talking to. It's very telling about his character. He gets thru (almost) the entire film without physically harming anyone. Hes not an action hero, hes no warrior. Hes a rogue. Skates through the entire film by the tip of his tongue and stealth.
RIP Ian McDonald, ("Military band of the british army", "Giles, Giles and Fripp", "King Crimson", "In the court of the crimson king", 1969 etc.), alto sax player and "Foreigner" co-founder (75) ;-( Ian also performed as a session saxist on "T. Rex"’s classic 1971 album, "Electric warrior" and later reunited with part of the original Crimson lineup as a member of the "21st century schizoid cand", his final major project was the rootsy rock band "Honey West", King Crimson did also two "John Peel sessions" (65, d. 2004) in 1969, King Crimson was sampled by many alternative bands, but also hip hop artists, f.i. by Kanye West, Phat Kat, Pharaoe Monch, Gang Starr, Sagopa Kajmer, The Hive, Moving Strings and Crimson Jazz Trio etc. !
@IntrepidTit One of the very best. He was critically important to the first incarnation of KC, and was instrumental in setting the tone that the band would carry forward for the next 52+ years.
This is an amazing film. I loved every minute. Pigs over Battersea Power Station. Homage to Pink Floyrd and the symbolisation of these people having the wealth and power.
I love the use of contrast in this scene or scenes... we see the common people... all crowded together in a state of distress. Then Clive Owen is driven out to the country, where it's isolated. Then into this guys mansion... nothing but space... any food or drink he wants... plunder. Really shows how one person with power and money lives like an alien compared with the masses.
Nice analysis, but it's worth pointing out that the 'mansion' in this scene is actually supposed to be the 'Ark of Arts', a refurbished (and digitally enhanced) Battersea Power Station - still very much within London, and only two or three miles from the street that we first see Theo being driven down. You get the impression that we're moving out into the country just because the route goes past some of London's large parks. At the time of filming, Battersea Power Station was just a shell, having been decommissioned and left to rot for decades - but that whole area has now been redeveloped and the restored Power Station will be host to a campus, shops, events venue and roof gardens.
It's meant to be within a few km's of the masses you just saw. You saw that military blockade? That's them separating the elite from the plebs. Theo is meant to work for some government ministry, likely getting the job due to his connections. Heh as relatives inside the elite world, but he lives with everyone else, albeit a bit better than most.
If only the world today realizes the relative impact of this epic moment in cinematic history has on the future shall it become reality or remain fiction
I saw this movie for the first time a few years back, and I thought my music on my phone went off during this scene. It blew me away! I loved this and the Animals tribute in the next scene.
You know, there are hundreds of references to more mainstream, blockbuster, sci-fi fare like Inception, and Children of Men is still far far superior in tackling it's subject matter. It's the end of the world in slow motion. It's all of humanity dying from cancer all at once. It's the Radiohead of thought-provoking sci-fi.
In addition to Greg Lake's inspiring voice and Fripp's mellotron playing in the background, you can also see that the Battersea Power Station has a giant pig floatie near its smokestacks. This is the closest any apocalyptic film has ever gotten to being a prog rock record.
@@SALTrips ah yes, all that intellect that made you reach the conclusion that humanity that 40 years came closer to nuclear war than it is today, it's close to some kind of extinction because of infertility, and according to your words "we're almost there". While more humans are giving birth than ever before. Genius level intellect right there. Just a spoiled brat who thinks their time is the ultimate/penultimate time and has no knowledge of history.
People will be happy the UK is independent when this global debt crisis hits. The entire EU will be dragged down by the periphery countries with excess debt. At least the UK stands a chance by having removed itself.
I think they could have easily fit in Epitaph in the movie as well. The wall on which the prophets wrote Is cracking at the seams. Upon the instruments of death The sunlight brightly gleams. When every man is torn apart With nightmares and with dreams, Will no one lay the laurel wreath As silence drowns the screams. Between the iron gates of fate, The seeds of time were sown, And watered by the deeds of those Who know and who are known; Knowledge is a deadly friend When no one sets the rules. The fate of all mankind I see Is in the hands of fools. Confusion will be my epitaph. As I crawl a cracked and broken path If we make it we can all sit back And laugh. But I fear tomorrow I'll be crying, Yes I fear tomorrow I'll be crying.
A very significant film in the field of dystopia and the genre of science fiction that shows a demonstration of the power of the rich and privileged living in the intoxication of great food of wine and amazing music in this case King Crimson where Brian Eno also performed and the music is great and underscores the subverted and dysfunctional world of the reign of terror and insecurity, as already shown by Fritz Lang Film Metropolis or Blade Runner of 1982, which also belong to this genre and also the meaning show scum and human scum in coexistence with each other
Anyone ever notice how this film mirrors lord of the flies? takes place on island with no hope of procreation or future, emphasis on othering processes, hope comes in the form of a boat in the end. most notably lord of the flies being beelzebub aka the crimson king. have searched online and never found any mention of the two titles together
Its April 9th, 2022 and there have been scientific backed, internet articles published about the presence of micoplastics in the human body. Scientists don't know what the long term affects are with microplastics being present in every part of our body but Im sure its NOT good.. 😳😬😥
This movie is the most accurate view of the future ever conceived. We haven’t fully reached it yet, but we are juuuuuust about there. When the people ask for Quietus, then, you will know.
I guess I've got to watch this movie. I'm a big fan of "On The Beach" not only the book by Nevil Shute, but the old black and white movie, and the newer post-internet movie. I suspect this movie is influenced by that story and two movies. Unfortunately I'm in "Silicon Valley" where internet access sucks unless you're rich, so the easiest way for me to see movies is to buy them on DVD. Which is hard to do because ... non-rich.
I was listening to pink floyd, and thought of this scene. Besides the flying pig, I remembered the kid with the wrist controlled device. Anyway, even if women were infertile, cloning embryos would still be possible? Grim anyway.
It's interesting You all missed the part of the end of the movie, because Theo's brother preserved the art of the past there will be humans that can see it again, because life begins a new. Theo is wrong in at this point in the movie as he like everybody else has lost hope.
@@PeterParker-yg6fc You think? Latest news: We all know Russia's population is in decline. To make a long story short (with regard to a recruitment-age population), this war in Ukraine will be the last war Russia will fight, ever.
@IntrepidTit correct - wondering what is planned to somehow, magically turn 'TOAST' into 'FRESH BREAD' for the mid term...and when or how soon before november it will be set in action; to re-round-up the sheep that MAY have had enough and were going astray
also - Atlas Shrugged' [Ayn Rand, 1957] and '1984' [G.Orwell, 1949] What is the excuse of those for not having heeded these equally foresightful observations / warnings!
Wonder if 0:44 is a reference to a very similar shot in 1971's antiwar film Universal Soldier? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-S1Wd1qWaLns.html
