Okay guys, it's official: the beta blockers I have to take to prevent migraine cause not only all the weird dreams I have (I slaughter and butcher each night happily away or get the pleasant treatment myself) and do cause a severe drop in blood pressure from time to time which makes me black out and feeling like the world is spinning around me but that is nothing compared to the nightmare I have been through this afternoon - it's called Children of Men.

I am trying hard not to give any spoilers away and I will say that the film is brilliantly made and the acting is superb! SORRY FOLKS BUT I HAVE TO GIVE ONE SPOILER AWAY: CLIVE WEARS FLIP-FLOPS (THONGS FOR SKYE) AT LEAST FOR ONE THIRD OF THE FILM!!!!

I was a total sucker for the soundtrack by John Taverner and if I get my greedy hands on it it's mine!!! I loved how London was used and abused for a very, very noirish, almost Boschish (Hieronymus Bosch - sorry, that's the German spelling) outlook. Oh man, Britain 2027 could easily be the playground for a second coming of the Nazi regime. Let me just tell you that I am utterly depressed now. I cried at the end of the film and I don't think I am done yet with crying. I would love to tell you more but no, you have to see it for yourself. I will have to start reading the book very soon as a work colleague told me it has almost nothing in common with the novel. So far I don't care. I dare to say if we continue living our lives to the full and against our body wisdom we are very likely to be on our way to our own destruction. Fertility figures in women and men have actually shrunk and this should not come as a surprise as we work longer and harder, rarely respecting day and night time, drink hard, consume a lot of legal drugs and so on. If this is the future I will say goodbye to the planet happily in time.

I know for sure that I will cry each time I watch the film and I knew already in advance that it will go immediately in my dvd collection.

Big hugs and lots of love,

Doro