Children Of Men

"Your baby is the miracle the whole world has been waiting for" Jasper from Children Of Men.


Children Of Men is a science fiction movie, but mainly an amazing apocalyptic movie made in 2006; six years ago. It is set in the year 2027, in a world where women can no longer have babies. Theo, the protagonist, has the mission to protect the only pregnant woman. He needs to protect her because the world is full of madness and destruction. If someone knew there was a baby, the reactions could be terrible. This movie shows the human kind self destruction; where the protection of a baby could symbolize the protection of hope from violence and human decay.

It is a Science Fiction movie because it is set in a futuristic time, the movie shows an interesting perspective of future, were technology is not the central element but human own destruction is; I think this could be a more realistic perspective if humans continue the way they are living now a days, the movie shows, then, a deep criticism of human kind. The other Science Fiction elements the movie present are the possibility of science of using this new baby to safe human kind; this technological advance can only be set in a world like the one in the movie.

I really liked and recommend this movie. I have seen it before, and I saw it again without problem. It is a movie that shows a deep critic to reflect on. As a Science Fiction movie, and after all the ones of this genre I have seen the past weeks, it shows another face and another possibility not to far away from reality of the future.

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