The year is 2027, Earth's youngest citizen has just died. He was 18 years old. For mysterious reasons, the human race has seemingly lost the ability to reproduce. Societies around the world have collapsed, sending refugees pouring into a fascistic England rampant with nationalistic, racist sentiment.
It's in this context that Theo, an ex-political activist turned bureaucrat finds himself trapped in a struggle to protect the one woman who holds the key to the future. Her name is Kee, and she is a pregnant African woman; the first hope of new birth which could save the human race from extinction.
He races to bring Kee to a mysterious organization called the Human Project, while dodging both the brutal authoritarian regime, and a band of radicals who aim to use the baby as inspiration for their cause, through conditions of civil war and upheaval.
Children of Men is an amazing movie if only for its cinematography. It's filmed brilliantly so that the viewer feels almost as though they are in the movie themselves. The acting is good too, and the plot is well thought out and interesting. Admittedly it is hard not to sympathies with the radical revolutionaries, even though they are painted as one of two groups of bad-guys. Considering the conditions under which they were living, their option seemed a bit more realistic than a somewhat Utopian and mysterious Human Project in a far off land. But then again, it's science fiction...
Still, one has to wonder how far off from reality this grim vision of the future could be considering the new diseases and disorders that come into existence every year; considering the things we are doing to ourselves and to our environment. Children of Men is a lot of fun to watch, but can also be a wake up call to a world that could be heading towards a species-threatening crisis of its own if todays practices go unchanged.
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Rated R for strong violence, language, some drug use and brief nudity.
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