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Childhood's End
After peaceful aliens invade earth, humanity finds itself living in a utopia under the indirect rule of the aliens, but does this utopia come at a price?
| Release : | 2015 |
| Rating : | 6.8 |
| Studio : | |
| Crew : | Director, Writer, |
| Cast : | Charles Dance Mike Vogel Colm Meaney Julian McMahon Georgina Haig |
| Genre : | Drama Thriller Science Fiction TV Movie |
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Simply A Masterpiece
Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.
Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.
The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.
A dreadfull adaptation of a sci fi classic novel plagued with cheap tv melodrama, lobotomized and not even close to the spirit of the original story. If you did not read the novel and want to watch this, be warned that the actual book is noting like this, and if you have read the novel, don't expect this to make justice.
This movie can be summed up with the following: "I've come to fix all your problems." "Yay" "You actually thought I would save humanity, trolololol. Not our fault though." *Refuses to give any further information.* "Its OK dude. If you need to exterminate humanity I understand."
I love the series.At first when you finished the series, it's hard to understand the point of it all but after some time I realized there is a very valuable lesson here.There is a reason why life is hard and why we have a free will.But if we become zealots, we would just choose to do anything even though it is against God's will just because it is beneficial and/or good for everyone(majority). Also if we become zealots our faith in God will be gone even though all of our wants and needs are satisfied. In the series, they all became zealots that is why God turn his back on them.It is corollary that just giving thanks to God is not faith. It is obvious because faith is not that.
The production was remarkably true to the book, which like the first-cited reviewer I read almost a half-century ago and dearly love, except in one respect - no doubt with understandable but not forgivable artistic license, the scriptwriter in the final episode removed the dignity and eventual acceptance of the evolutionary process of the 'remaindered' humans and thus allowed the separation scenes to become - doubtless televisually attractive - those of panic and distress, at odds with Clarke's view of humanity as expressed by Karellen - that they were worth the effort. After all, the Overlords had the job of 'midwives to this process, but we ourselves are barren': they had the greatest respect, as did the writer, for their charges, who eventually deserved it.
