Blog from the Future Past

I went to see, "Children of Men" with a friend last week. I liked the movie a lot and it was well done. The plot had this fatal flaw, though. Set in the near future, human females have somehow become inexplicably infertile. The story begins with the death of the youngest person on earth, at the time eighteen-years-old. The world is in chaos and ruin, with no future past the death of those then alive.

The flaw? All of modern research into genetic science--things such as frozen eggs or embryos or cloning--are just ignored, never mentioned.

Try and suspend your disbelief and see it. The dire, grubby, hopeless future depicted in the film casts an artful dark shadow off our human frailties, then saves us in the end with a small glimmer of hope. It works.

A child will be born at last.

Thank goodness it's a girl.

It's been a while... it's not easy being the tree that falls in the woods when no one is around to hear it.