Children Of Men is another one of those movies that divides the audience. I have read dozens of reviews stating it's either the best thing since sliced bread, or that it's totally up itself. With such a divided swing of votes I decided it was something that I definitely needed to see.
It's London in 2007 and office worker Theo Faron makes his way on his normal route to work. Having stopped off at his favorite coffee shop, he finds the customers staring in belief at the television screens. It seems that Baby Diego the youngest person on the Earth at just over 18 has died, killed by a fan. Not much of a follower of this sort of thing, while the world goes to pieces Theo makes his way to work, in Theo's world Baby Diego was a non entity, in a subtle way it seems that his death gives Theo a certain amount of pleasure. But there is no time to think, while making his way along the high street a shop explodes, the target of terrorists.
Theo himself becomes the victim of terrorists to some extent a few days later when he is kidnapped. After an initially alarming experience he is confronted by Julian Taylor, the leader of a sort of resistance; who just happens to be a lost love. Having total trust in Theo, Julian asks him to take you Fijian Kee to Brighton. While reluctantly accepting believing that Kee is just an illegal immigrant, Theo soon discovers this is not the only issue. Kee is the first woman to fall pregnant on the earth in over 18 years.
This world that Children Of Men is set in is a hostile one. Nobody is capable of having children, and anyone that could be found to be able to conceive would certainly become a victim in the sort of Neo-Nazi regime that is referred to as the government. In this future world everywhere except England has fallen through war, whole countries are in anarchy if they exist at all. Immigrants as such are an issue, England will no longer except anyone considered as "foreign" they are sent back to their own country, or held in what looks like Concentration camps.
I initially wondered why some people were so incensed by Children Of Men, as I said in my opening paragraph it seems to have a strong swing in both directions. It seems that American's hate the movie more than English people, I wondered why? Could it be that wavy camerawork almost like a documentary at times? Could it be a little too artsy? Or could it be that the first place described to fall during all the wars was America? I'm not knocking our American cousins, but a quick
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