#childrenofmen

I have always appreciated the movie “Children of Men” for various reasons. Aside from the technical aspects of the film and it’s obvious brilliance - I’ve always found this story to be immensely important with it’s sobering social commentary.

I do not know what the future holds for humanity in real life as we know it, but I do certainly pray it does not share any resemblance to the dystopian imagery of this bleak & tragic story. Oh! and if you have NOT seen this movie - this video is spoileriffic so yeah - don’t ruin it for yourself.

            "Children Of Men" is a future based movie about a social crisis. The main character Theo is a news reporter from His Theo (Clive Owen) is not an academic but a mid-level bureaucrat, and his connection to a government minister is less close and less lofty. When the radicals approach him, it is in part because one of them is his ex-wife, Julian, and all they ask from him is that he obtain papers that will enable a young African refugee named Kee to travel from London to the coast. He does, but the documents require him to go with her, and it soon converts clear that she is pregnant. The first woman so blessed in two decades.

What I love about this movie is its theme. It expresses the feeling and emotion of the scene through the use of real colour as one of the narrative elements in the filmmaking industry. For example, some parts of the town where the refugees live, it has a dark-themed colour to it that shows that they are in poverty, and the shape they are living in. Furthermore, I saw Theo trying his best to save Kee in any possible way. However, one of the most touching scenes I saw in this film is the part that Kee and Theo are in the middle of the fight between the fishes and the British special force. Because both sides stop shooting and ceasefire their weapon because they are all here the baby crying and everybody is in shock of such a miracle. That shows how much everyone cared about this event, and it feels like a revolution to everyone because the youngest person on the planet was eighteen, who passed away before the climax of the plot in this film.  in this future world that intrigues. Then, when the action starts, what I found surprising was the freshness of direction that made me react to ammunition and violence as if I'd never seen them in a movie before. If the script weren't so wonderfully leavened with wit, it would be a grim and scary movie at times.

Hope is the most dangerous thing left.

This week, we looked at Children of Men - a world without children, without future, and without faith in anything except the systems failing all around us.

But maybe the most disturbing part wasn’t the collapse. It was how familiar it all felt.

From crumbling borders to government control, the slow death of meaning hits harder than any dystopian monster ever could.

The world doesn’t end in fire. It ends in indifference.

Next week, we switch gears - but not entirely. We're heading to 1981, where New York itself has become a prison.

New Episode Out Now – War, Fear, and a Dying World: The Terrifying Relevance of Children of Men

This week, we dive into Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men. If we’re talking return on investment, this movie was technically a flop. But if we’re talking prophetic genius - there may be no better example.

We explore the film’s chilling relevance today - from border politics and authoritarianism to the quiet despair of a world that’s simply… stopped trying.

“The world was already going to shit.”

“Even if they discovered the cure for infertility, doesn’t matter. Too late. World went to shit. Know what? It was too late before the infertility thing happened — for fuck’s sake.” — Theo, Children of Men

Before the bombs, before the cages, before the last birth — the world was already broken. In Children of Men, infertility isn’t the cause of collapse. It’s the result of a society that has lost all hope.

Does humanity deserve to go on — or have we outstayed our welcome?

War, Fear, and a Dying World: The Terrifying Relevance of Children of Men

This week, we dive into a very different — but no less brutal — vision of dystopia. Children of Men imagines a future where no child has been born in over 18 years, and humanity faces extinction. As society collapses into chaos, Britain clings to authoritarian control, becoming one of the last functioning nations under totalitarian rule.