Children of Men

Just a quick update on poker. I've nearly recovered, thanx to a GREAT session today before work. Hit the .10/.25 tables to start my recovery, but left up $55. I played very well, I thought, stealing some pots, showing discipline when deciding to chase draws, etc. But I'd also like to send a shout out to those wonderful people who refused to believe my reraises and INSISTED on donating. Still, I was about $5 short of where I was before yesterday, but I played a short session tonite AFTER work, and now, I'm....EVEN!! Can the WSOP be far behind?

Ok, I mentioned yesterday that I'd gone to see "Children of Men" and that it made quite an impression on me. It's set in England, in the year 2027 (No, I'm not giving the movie away). Women have become infertile, and the worlds gone to hell.

The movie paints a grim picture, but the worse part is that it's totally plausible. Essentially, you hve a combination of the terrorists winning, and the despair caused by the knowledge that the race is doomed. When I first saw the advertisments for this movie, I said to my girlfriend "If there's one truth to this movie, it's that we won't let the fact that we can't make any more of us keep us from killing us." I was right, at least about the movie.

Forget about the despair everyone feels every part of every day, knowing that in 50 or 60 years, it's over. That is just a movie, no biggie. What got me was the background of the movie. Apparently, the terrorists win. England is the only sane country left in the world, elsewhere, you hve nuclear winters, cities perpetually on fire, and intense civil war. And even in England, you have burnt out farms, contrasting with peaceful, busy city streets, high technology and a luxurious standard of living set against pitched battles in apartment complexes and mobs roaming in the woods. You have illegal immigration prevention carried to WILD extremes and a place where escaping a terrorist attack by a bare 2 seconds is so commonplace as to merit no comment at all.

We're involved in a World War in real life, I believe, and the wrong side winning could easily lead to the world displayed in the movie. Very nerve wracking to watch a movie about a future we may not escape.