“Children of Men”'s vision of the future is now disturbingly familiar

Re:“Children of Men”'s vision of the future is now disturbin... by huehehue on Friday December 23, 2016 @11:17PM (#13248560)

Reminds me of "It Follows". David Robert Mitchell made some pretty interesting prop choices specifically to avoid dating the movie. From his AV Club interview:

> There are production design elements from the ’50s on up to modern day. [...] if you show a specific smartphone now, it dates it. It’s too real for the movie. It would bother me anyway. So we made one up. And all of that is really just to create the effect of a dream—to place it outside of time, and to make people wonder about where they are.

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Re:“Children of Men”'s vision of the future is now disturbin... by jbigelow76 on Saturday December 24, 2016 @01:58AM (#13248935)

If you're going to make up a faux smart phone to prevent people from pegging it to a specific time frame you may as well say your props people some time and use a Windows phone.

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Re:“Children of Men”'s vision of the future is now disturbin... by trevyn on Friday December 23, 2016 @11:46PM (#13248617)

Great reference. The shellphone is one of my favorite parts of that movie.

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