Children of Men

Children of Men is a fantastic movie that had many different camera movements that made the film come together as a whole. Cuarón wanted the film to have very little cuts and that is exactly what he did with it. Most of the scenes in this movie were shot in one take which made it difficult with all of the moving parts in some of the scenes. Children of Men won many different awards for the cinematography Cuarón used, which all of them were well deserved.

            There were many great cinematography angles within the movie but some of the ones that stood out the most to me was when Juliann and Theo were playing with the ping pong ball in the car and the camera was moving around within the car. Another good shot was in the opening scene where Theo was outside and was putting sugar in his coffee and the shop exploded. This is a diegetic camera shot where how they moved the camera around. That whole scene was also shot in one take which is very impressive to say the least.

            Some other fantastic shots were when everyone was in the car headed to the safe house when the car came out and everyone started attacking them. That was a wide angle shot because of how well we could see everyone within the shot. Also, when the bus went by their car and kept going on, that was also a wide angle shot, which was well placed. Most of the shots in this movie were actually shot with a handheld camera which is very impressive! It added to the effect of being with them in the scene because of the way the camera shook also.

            Children of Men was a fantastic movie from the storyline to the amazing camera shots. Cuarón was an amazing director and had many different fantastic shots. There were very little cuts within the movie and when there were cuts, they were very subtle. The most impressive shot was in the car and the camera was moving around the car which was very difficult to achieve.