CSUN Film Children of Men Questions
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Children of Men has several instances of christian symbolism or political allusions throughout the film.
When they exit the Russian apartments, and the next shot you see is this woman wailing, holding the body of her son in her arms. This was a reference to a real photograph of a woman holding the body of her son in the Balkans, crying with the corpse of her son. It’s very obvious that when the photographer captured that photograph, he was referencing La Pieta, the Michelangelo sculpture of Mary holding the corpse of Jesus. So: We have a reference to something that really happened, in the Balkans, which is itself a reference to the Michelangelo sculpture.
Describe two other scenes where you found that the imagery was powerful and added to the narrative in the film.
Successfully described in detail at least two scenes where the imagery added significantly to the narrative
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