So, last summer I managed to read/watch both versions of Children of Men. My faulty memory has since swept most of the details away, but armed with some wikipedia articles as refreshers, I think I can get most of the important details back again. As an opener: this is one of those rare pairs of book & adaptation that are both totally incredible without being carbon copies of one another. And, any director/cinematographer/actor that can handle a single 5 minute shot of people dying, shooting, and blowing things up is totally out of Hollywood's league.