What kind of person would hang the 26-foot-wide Picasso mural Guernica, which commemorates the brutal 1937 Nazi bombing of a Spanish town during that country's civil war and the massacre of as many as 1,600 civilians, in his ... dining room?
You can find out Friday when the movie Children of Men, a movie set two decades in the future, opens wider in hundreds of additional theaters around the U.S. In this world, humans can no longer procreate and public art doesn't seem to matter, and works such as this aren't in a museum, they're in a private residence in the hands of a collector. Ditto for Michaelango's David, which also has a cameo in the movie.
The film is highly recommended. But if you're looking for something cute, we here at The Cup of Joe suggest you dance on over to Happy Feet instead. Or tape Ellen.
By the end of the movie, the characters enter a prison city, grim and bleak, horrifying in its violence, and it's impossible not to feel the same kind of horror that Picasso must have felt.
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Excellent film. The most powerful scene in film in a long time--mother, child and rescuer walking through a crowd of soldiers, who suddenly stop shooting to behold a new life, but suddenly start up again. A glimpse of humanity. Gone in an instant in 2027.
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