And I feel fine

Bruce Baugh sings the praises of Children of Men and 28 Weeks Later, my two favorite films of the past year and harrowing post-apocalyptic narratives both. Interestingly, he cites Children of Men‘s long-take action and suspense sequences, singled out by many critics as a case of ostentatious filmmaking getting in the way of emotional immediacy, as doing precisely the opposite–recreating the emotional endlessness of traumatic moments in filmic terms. That feels right to me.

I think criticism of the technique used in those set pieces bespeaks a certain conservatism among film critics in its implicit belief that movies use the stuff of moviemaking at the expense of emotional resonance.

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  1. Carnival of souls/thoughts for the day

    * Jason Adams has blogged his thoughts on Battlestar Galactica: Razor. Like me, he thinks that the lack of on-screen canoodling between Tricia Helfer and Michelle Fobes smacks of rainbow-flag cold feet; also like me, he thinks it ranks with…

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