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Buzkashi posted:You could also look at it as him pouring alcohol into a victorious inhuman opponent, since he offers Childs a drink. You can ALSO look at it like this: at the start of the movie, he defeats his opponent unconventionally, with the drink. At the end, it's possible that MacReady is a Thing and Childs is human--in which case, MacReady-Thing is infecting Childs by getting him to drink from the same bottle. Earlier, they all decided to prepare their own food, out of tins, to avoid possible infection... God, I love The Thing. Anyway, the movie Children of Men has a bunch of little things hidden in it: -In the "Only Britain Soldiers On" propaganda ad early on, there's a fraction-of-a-second shot of New York with a mushroom cloud rising over it. Later, Theo asks Julian if her parents were in NY "when it happened". -Like five times over the course of the movie, Theo gets out and lights a cigarette, and every time something interrupts him. -Almost every scene has a couple animals in it. Many people have pet dogs, like they're replacements for children or something. -The "Ark of the Arts" prominently features Michelangelo's David, and also Guernica. At the end of the movie, the British military attacks the Fishes and other militia with a much larger, better-armed force--and wins. In the final scene, several planes fly over the main characters and bomb Bexhill. -At one point Theo wears a "London 2012" jumper, even though they hadn't chosen the location when the movie was being made. Just thought it was kind of cool.
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I just noticed another one in Children of Men: Early in the film, Theo visits his cousin in this huge museum storing hundreds of great works of art, collected together because no-one knows what else to do. He sees Michelangelo's David, which has lost a foot, presumably in the chaos of whatever's going on outside of Britain. His cousin specifically points this out. Later in the movie, Theo kills this one crooked cop, Syd, by hitting him in the head with a cinderblock or something. Moments later he steps on something--he's barefoot--and swears. It's a bit of a long shot, but the movie's full of biblical allusions and that sort of thing.
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