“Children of Men”'s vision of the future is now disturbingly familiar
Slightly OT but pertains to &quot;Children of Men&quot;<p>The scenes where main character Theo Faron (Clive Owen) is on the really nice buses, and there is classical music playing in the background, while outside the window there is so much poverty really resonated with me.<p>I&#x27;ve lived in SF going on 6 years now. My apt complex has private buses that run from here to FDi in the morning and evening. The route sometimes changes but a lot of the time we would go thru the heart of the TL.  I&#x27;d be half asleep comfortably siting on this Bauer&#x27;s bus, usually listening to something like Aphex Twin&#x27;s Select Ambient Works, so not the classic music, but still I would sit there in this amazingly privileged situation and look out the window to all this poverty and despair.  It constantly reminded me of this movie.<p>I worked at Apple for a while, and the same thing, yet instead of my apt complex, it was dozens of Apple buses, shuttling 1000s of people for all over the bay area, and again on the way i&#x27;d see so much that really made me think about the current affairs of lots of things that&#x27;s going crazy in our small little part of the world.<p>I&#x27;ve since left Apple and joined to a small startup near Union Square&#x2F;FDi area. I still live in the same apt complex, and they still have the buses running every 15-20 min in the morning, but i don&#x27;t ride them any more.<p>I walk the 2 miles everyday to and back from work, and I love it. For so many reasons I love it. One big reason is I don&#x27;t want to be shielded or sheltered from the real world going on around us.  I don&#x27;t want to deal with the shit on the sidewalk or the craziness that exists in between my spot and my work, but i also don&#x27;t want to pretend it doesn&#x27;t exist and try and ignore it.<p>Sometimes it can be very annoying, hell even scary.  But also, A few times it&#x27;s been amazing rewarding to help someone for 5 minutes. All sorts of little things, I&#x27;ve helped people that can&#x27;t get their wheelchair from the street onto the sidewalk, or helping the elderly man trying to pick up a heavy box of fruit delivery for his corner store I walk past.<p>I&#x27;ve had to explain this to some friends that live in apt complex. They take the bus daily and asked why I don&#x27;t ride it any more, and again it all comes back to the bus scene from Children Of Men.