I’m not sure if this was ever fully established in class, but if the fertility issue is in the female population alone, having a woman as the hero would have added some extra layers to character. If it was a woman assisting Kee, the heroine’s own issues with motherhood and infertility may have played a bigger role. Both male impotency and female…[Read more]

I too agree that the concept of Gender in “Children of Men” Is significant.  Even looking at just the title of the film, we already know that our societies social constructs paint the gaze of film from the perspective of men; and being that our protagonist is a man who aids and protects a woman…the film definitely is male centric and involves a…[Read more]

I also found myself thinking a lot about gender watching Children of Men. In regards to our hero being male in the film, I agree that making the hero a woman would entirely change the reception. Personally, I think it would have been more powerful to woman in the hero role and it would have felt a little less like there was this male savior…[Read more]

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>I also definitely enjoyed this film, though I was a bit bugged by the lack of explanation in the movie or the interview as mentioned about why the change was made to have women be infertile. I found that I really liked Theo as the main character. To me he seemed a hero in a refreshing way, focused mainly on evading…[Read more]

I also found this Children of Men to be a very powerful film. Gender does play a big role in film, and I do feel that if this film had a female perspective it would have been a fairly different film. I think that if Theo’s character was a female it would bring the message, “women supporting women”, but in this case it made it very different.…[Read more]

After discussing the potential political message behind Carpenter’s The Thing in class yesterday, it made me think of a particular scene that plays well into the Cold War allusions pointed out by Alison. I’m talking about the scene where they find the bags of blood tampered with, causing them to lose faith in the current station chief Garry. T…[Read more]

Adding a historical context to this movie is an interesting interpretation! I think what you said about the attempts to demonstrate the individuality of each character makes sense. I really see your connection between their waiting around for whatever will happen at the end and the Cold War.
What do you think about the idea of resigning themselves…[Read more]

I agree. The unfortunate thing about horror films, particularly during the eighties, is that they were largely B movies and often the philosophical or in this case, social and political messages would go unnoticed, even by those of us who were B movie geeks. There were many films, Night of the Comet, Dawn of the Dead, etc. that had very…[Read more]

I think the discrepancy comes from the definition of plot. By your definition, Nicholas, then yes, I’d say The Station Agent is a film with a plot. For me, I consider plot to be the external events that push the story forward and incite the change in the characters. So, by my definition, I have difficulties considering this as a movie with a…[Read more]

Lovecraft may have been tapping into an issue that is becoming more and more relevant as time progresses. During the time he was writing there had been a good number of scientific breakthroughs concerning biology, technology, and the cosmos.  Just to give a sense of the time, in the 1910s, several cellular discoveries were made and blood banks…[Read more]