Tuesday 22 November 2011

Children of Men

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Year:2006
Country of origin:UK / Japan / USA
Director:Alfonso Cuarón
Genre:Post apocalyptic bleakness
Starring:Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine
Rating:5/5
IMDB link:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206634/
Tagline:No children. No future. No hope.
Favourite line:"As the sound of the playgrounds faded, the despair set in. Very odd, what happens in a world without children's voices."

It's the year 2027, and the world is in chaos.
Huge swathes of the planet are in ruin due to a nuclear war, and only Britain is capable of maintaining any semblance of society, though even this is a shadow of its former self. A fascistic police force round up illegal immigrants by the thousand - people the world over are flocking to Britain to escape the chaos of their native land, and the law is that any foreigner is an illegal.
A disastrous side effect of the nuclear fallout from the war is that every woman on the planet became infertile, and no child has been born for over 18 years.
Clive Owen plays Theo Faron, a man contacted by a former girlfriend and political activist, who is hired to transport a refugee to an organisation called The Human Project. Thing is, she's pregnant, and nobody quite knows how or why.

Bleak and apocalyptic, this is superbly shot.
The acting is good too, and Owen is perfectly cast as the rugged hero.
Mixed in with the grimness are moments of genuine pathos, and the scene when the soldiers see the baby for the first time is just heart stoppingly moving.
I loved it.

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