Like the illusion of Wall Street, with its vast and powerful investment banks, now shuttered, China too is an illusion perpetuated by the Globalists that gave us the 15,000 mile Caesar salad, poisoned cat food and lead based paint on babies' pacifiers. Like the illusion that money would come from thin air to always push housing prices higher, China has spent a generation pursuing its illusion. Pursuing an unattainable dream to be like the West, while 6000 years of its carefully shepherded top soil blows into the sea.
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Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 2:35 am Post subject: Re: Children of Men, Peak Oil Movie?
Funny, I was just reading "Trading Post" by Neal Barrett, a short story where a guy scavenges works of art from a bombed out Houston. His clients: aliens.
Another in the new Isaac Asimov Presents series (see above), this provocative novel is set in a world that nuclear war has almost decimated of cities, technology and large animals. To replace farm livestock, the country's sole source of meat is genetically altered humans, without intelligence or speech. A distant civil war out west, its harsh taxes and harsher collectors, force Howie Ryder to flee his family's Tennessee farm. He falls in with outlaw Pardo, who signs on with a big meat drive only to rustle it and playsand preys onboth sides in running guns. Barrett's SF rendering of this latter-day civil war comes complete with a version of slavery, cavalry charges and a young boy representing the country's coming of age. The romantic narrative skillfully moves from a well-told if familiar story of war and the western frontier to areas of ambiguity and uncertainty that readers are left to answer for themselves.
GMO Humans for meat? I think Neal's solved that pesky overshoot problem! And I've done the deed of bringing up cannibalism in this thread...unless someone else has. Nasty film, COfM.
Anybody read the book? By PD James I think. She usually writes those mystery novels you still see in supermarkets. _________________ Cogito, ergo non satis bibivi
C'mon man, who're you gonna believe?
Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 5:54 am Post subject: Re: Children of Men, Peak Oil Movie?
Children of Men....an absolutely brilliant piece of work. For me, it is THE most compellingly authentic depiction of future dystopia I have ever seen.
That alone deserves recognition enough to put it up there with the greats like BladeRunner, Citizen Kane. But, add to that, the fantastic original characters (Caine's hippy-trance music-reefer dude, the new-age midwife, the hilariously nasty immigration guard), the sweeping themes (immigration, secular world vs religious fundementalism, global resource depletion, pollution) and the incredible one-shot set pieces (car ambush sequence, refugee city escape sequence). Those sequences were deliberately taken as one continuous shot rather than an edited sequence of shots....because the director (Cuaron) intinctively knew that one-shot pieces carry with them a sense of authenticity...life isn't edited.
The book by comparison (I read it about 8 yrs ago) was a rather dull and muddled implementation of a pretty cool idea.
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And I've done the deed of bringing up cannibalism in this thread...unless someone else has. Nasty film, COfM.
