The Parallax View

The Children of Men DVD smacks of the ole bait-and-switch double dip.

A single disc edition rushed out to make up for how they buried the film during Oscar season.

Still, in place of the usual technical featurettes and toothless behind-the-seasons interviews with cast members, Cuarón has opted to produce a documentary not on the film itself, but on the peripheral thematic issues which provided the movie which such wonderful texture (ie. Immigration, Global Warming, Constitutionalism).

It is oblique and fairly tangential, but surprisingly profound. As is a ten minute exegesis by Slavoj Žižek of all people.

And since neither bare the authoritative stamp of the auteur, but instead intimate at alternative readings of the film, they should hopefully provide a richer second (or in my case fourth, fifth, and sixth) viewing.