Children of Men (2006)

[Dave (imported)]

I searched around and can't find anything I might have posted about this movie. I've first saw it years ago and just had the chance to watch it again.

CHILDREN OF MEN is a movie based on P.D. James's novel of the same name. Alfonso Cuaron wrote, directed, and cut the movie.

It is one of the most thoughtful and thrilling essays on a very sad world in a dystopic future.

In 2027, the world is in chaos because no child has been born for eighteen years. The youngest person on earth is 18 years old. There are no children, no babies... The world is falling apart. The movie is set in London because being an island kingdom, it is a militarized haven. There are refugee camps and would be immigrants are routinely rounded up and deported to the chaos of Europe and the rest of the world.

Theo Faron (Clive Owen) is asked by his estranged wife (Julianne Moore) to obtain travel papers for an immigrant woman named Kee. Julianne Moore is a rebel against the current rather fascist government. Theo can only obtain papers if he accompanies the woman. What we find out rather quickly is that Kee is pregnant. The first child in eighteen years. Theo must escort Kee to a port where a ship from the "Human Project" will take Kee to the Azores where they may or may not have a cure for infertility.

Their path is through an immigrant camp and into a rebellion. In the midst of the squalor, and the violence, and the brutality of a world gone to hell, a world damned to die. . . And yet, in that awful world is redemption and salvation.

Alfonso Cuaron filmed several scenes as continuous sequences with Theo and Kee moving though gun battles, tanks, rebellions. One sequence is seven minutes long and just sears the screen with emotion. This film is lovingly put together and so beautifully filmed.

A movie well worth watching.