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Children of Men
Cuarón's dystopia in a single continuous shot. Hope as the only political position.
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Children of Men
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The one-take war sequence — the formal assertion
→ 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Cuarón's unbroken takes in the war zone inherit from Kubrick the belief that the shot IS the argument. The technique refuses the spectator's detachment just as Kubrick's long takes in 2001 refuse narrative comfort.
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