On Watching Theology, Joe and Melissa take a single film and examine it closely, looking at the assumptions and ideas in the story. Every episode considers the theological, philosophical and thematic elements of a film, listening closely to what the author has to say, and interacting with those ideas. (It's more fun than it sounds).

Joe watches too many movies. He grew up in central Washington, earned his B.A. in Education and Fine Art, an M.A. in Theology and currently works in the printing industry. During school, he fit in a few film classes. He is interested in writing, theology and hopes to one day compose the ultimate Joe Versus the Volcano commentary track.

Melissa has a B.A. in History and an M.A. in English with an emphasis on Film Studies. She has taken classes on everything from silent to romance to post-colonial films and much in between. Her research and interests lie mainly in feminist film theory, women in film, Hitchcock and the studio era. At the end of the day, however, she just loves films; from Notorious to Die Hard!

Go to watchingthedirectors.com for more from Joe and Melissa.

Show DescriptionWatching Theology

Children of Men (2006)

Watching Theology October 23rd, 2007

wt_childrenofmen.jpg[NOTE: Explicit Content] Since Huxley's Brave New World, novels and films have flowed with a bleak view of the not-too-distant future. Alfonso Cuaron's adaptation of P.D. James' Children of Men doesn't depart too far from this perspective. But it does offer some new thoughts to the genre. Join us as we look at what the film says about the basics of human sexuality and the idea of a world without a future.
Also, we announce, sadly, that Watching Theology is going through some changes.
Watching The Directors next edition: October 30 - James Whale
Next WT edition: tba

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2 Responses to “Children of Men (2006)”

Christov October 24th, 2007

Bummer. I'll miss your WT eps, and will tune in more often to your WTD show, even though I've got some kind of functional impairment that keeps me from getting your director's scores (it's not your fault - it's me, really).

Of course I'm familiar with James' detective novels, but never knew she'd written anything outside that genre, nor that any of her work had been used as the basis for a film. This was an interesting show to me because my wife and I have been "diagnosed" with medically unexplained infertility. Probably an as yet undiscovered DNA typo - perhaps the same one that renders me unable to comprehend aforesaid director scores or to multiply fractions. Short of some miracle, when it comes to reproducing after the human kind, we're the ones who are "done."

As a genetic dead-end and one who would probably qualify as rabidly nationalistic, this cast was doubly interesting. While I disagree with Joe's comment that the current floodtide of immigration is the fuel upon which this nation's arguably broken economy runs, and I'm guessing James is a sort of one-world, UN-loving ideologue of sorts, I enjoyed the discussion and am interested enough that I'll probably watch the movie.

You guys will probably be missed around here - at least by me.

Ciao,

Chris

Stephanie November 2nd, 2007

I can not stand to hear that! I just found you and was having a wonderful time listening. I have not yet listened to this most recent podcast but say your vague reference to "changes".

Thank you for all the good listening!

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