The Laird Recommends Children of Men

Children of Men is the most stunning, provocative, depressing, and exhilarating movies I've seen in a long time. It's vision of British dystopia makes V for Vendetta look like Mary Poppins.

The movie opens with our hero getting a cup of coffee in a crowded, dingy coffee shop. On the television, the news is about the tragic death of the youngest person on Earth, who was 18. He walks outside. Then the coffee shop explodes. Earth has become a living, but all too believable, Hell, where suicide pills are marketed like antidepressants and sleep-aids.

Yet, there is hope. (Just go see it.)

Clive Owen dodging...something or other in Children of Men.