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๐ข๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ง ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ค๐จ: "This is set in a dystopian near-future in London. I rewatched it a few times, before and after Brexit kicked in, when I was making the decision to leave the UK. I felt so psychologically brutalised by what was going on that I could really relate to this film again. The police state vision of future England in this movie was slowly becoming a reality: heavily armed police patrols on the streets, refugees and immigrants locked up in camps. Julianne Moore and Clive Owen are excellent, but top prize goes to Michael Caine, who plays this long-haired hippy stoner – his performance is absolutely hilarious."
(๐โ๐ ๐บ๐ข๐๐๐๐๐๐, ๐๐ ๐๐ฆ ๐ ๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐๐โ 19๐กโ, 2022 / ๐๐๐ก๐๐๐ฃ๐๐๐ค ๐๐ฆ ๐พ๐๐กโ๐๐ฆ๐ ๐ต๐๐๐๐ค๐๐โ)
Writer and film critic Laura Eldred observes that the film is "๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐" - which Brian undoubtedly is!❤️
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| Photo credit: Mads Perch; Children Of Men poster / edit by Olga |
๐๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ : Clive Owen, Clare-Hope Ashitey, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Pam Ferris, Charlie Hunnam.
The film was released on September 22nd, 2006 in the UK and on Christmas Day, December 25th, in the US (which is a connection to the film's themes of hope, redemption, and faith).
⭐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ received critical acclaim and was nominated for three Academy Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, and Best Film Editing. It was also nominated for three BAFTA Awards, winning Best Cinematography and Best Production Design, and for three Saturn Awards, winning Best Science Fiction Film. In 2016 it was voted 13th among 100 films considered the best of the 21st century by 117 film critics from around the world.
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London, 2027. In this dystopian world, humans have been incapable of reproducing for eighteen years for an unknown reason, meaning the imminent extinction of the species. Britain is the one remaining civilized society on the planet, which has resulted in people wanting to immigrate there. As such, it has become a police state in order to handle the immigrants, who are placed into refugee camps. Lowly government bureaucrat Theo Faron, once an activist, is approached by the Fishes, deemed a terrorist group, led by his ex-wife Julian Taylor, who he has not seen in close to twenty years, their marriage which disintegrated following the death of their infant son Dylan during the 2008 flu pandemic. Although the Fishes did use terrorist means in their on-going revolution against the state in the fight for immigrant rights, Julian vows that they now garner support solely by speaking to the people. What she wants is for Theo to use his connections to get transit papers for a young immigrant woman named Kee who needs to get to the coast. Although initially reluctant to do it because of the difficulty, Theo is able to grant Julian this favor, however with the change that he now needs to accompany Kee on her journey. As Theo and Kee progress on that journey, Theo learns more and more about what's going on, including the reason that Kee needs to get to the coast, the fact that no one in the group knows if their end destination even exists, and that his and Kee's lives are in greater danger than he believed when they started the journey. But Theo's sole mission becomes to help Kee at any cost for the survival of the species.
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▪Children of Men explores the themes of hope and faith in the face of overwhelming futility and despair. The film's source, P. D. James' novel The Children of Men (1992), describes what happens when society is unable to reproduce, using male infertility to explain this problem. The ๐ญ๐ข๐ญ๐ฅ๐ can therefore be explained as such: ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ .
▪The film switches the infertility from male to female but never explains its cause: environmental destruction and divine punishment are considered.
Cuarรณn uses the concept of ๐๐๐ฆ๐๐ฅ๐ ๐ข๐ง๐๐๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ as a "๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐". The "almost mythical" Human Project is turned into a "๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐". Without dictating how the audience should feel by the end of the film, Cuarรณn encourages viewers to come to their own conclusions about the sense of hope depicted in the final scenes: "We wanted the end to be a glimpse of a possibility of hope, for the audience to invest their own sense of hope into that ending. So if you're a hopeful person you'll see a lot of hope, and if you're a bleak person you'll see a complete hopelessness at the end."
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▪The crux of the journey in Children of Men lies in what is uncovered along the path rather than the terminus itself. Theo's heroic journey to the south coast mirrors his personal quest for "self-awareness", a journey that takes him from "despair to hope".
▪According to Cuarรณn, the title of P. D. James' book (The Children of Men) is an allegory derived from a passage of scripture in the Bible. James refers to her story as a "Christian fable" while Cuarรณn describes it as "almost like a look at Christianity": "๐ฐ ๐ ๐๐ ๐'๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐. […] ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐ฐ ๐๐๐๐'๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐."
▪The film has been noted for its use of ๐๐ก๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐๐ง ๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ฆ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ; for example, British terrorists named "Fishes" protect the rights of refugees. Opening on Christmas Day in the United States, critics compared the characters of Theo and Kee with Joseph and Mary, calling the film a "modern-day Nativity story". Kee's pregnancy is revealed to Theo in a barn, alluding to the manger of the Nativity scene; when Theo asks Kee who the father of the baby is she jokingly states she is a virgin; and when other characters discover Kee and her baby, they respond with "Jesus Christ" or the sign of the cross.
▪In the closing credits, the Sanskrit words "๐บ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐บ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐บ๐๐๐๐๐๐" appear as end titles. During a visit to his house by Theo and Kee, Jasper says "Shanti, shanti, shanti". Eldred notes that the "shanti" used in the film is also found at the end of an ๐๐ฉ๐๐ง๐ข๐ฌ๐ก๐๐ [๐๐๐๐ ๐ฝ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐บ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ฏ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐] and in the final line of T. S. Eliot's poem ๐ป๐๐ ๐พ๐๐๐๐ ๐ณ๐๐๐ , a work being described as "devoted to contemplating a world emptied of fertility: a world on its last, teetering legs". "๐บ๐๐๐๐๐" is also a common beginning and ending to all ๐ฏ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐, and means "peace", referencing the invocation of divine intervention and rebirth through an end to violence.
๐ช๐ช๐ถ๐ต๐ป๐ฌ๐ด๐ท๐ถ๐น๐จ๐น๐ ๐น๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฌ๐น๐ฌ๐ต๐ช๐ฌ๐บ๐ช
▪Children of Men takes an unconventional approach to the modern action film, using a documentary, newsreel style. Some critics observe the film's underlying touchstone of ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ข๐ ๐ซ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง.
▪There’s a similarity between the hellish, cinรฉma vรฉritรฉ stylized battle scenes of the film and current news and documentary coverage of the ๐๐ซ๐๐ช ๐๐๐ซ.
▪In the film, refugees are "hunted down like cockroaches", rounded up and put into roofless cages open to the elements and camps, and even shot, leading film critics to observe symbolic "overtones" and images of the ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ. This is reinforced in the scene where an elderly refugee woman speaking German is seen detained in a cage. A song by The Libertines, Arbeit macht frei, plays in the background. "๐ป๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ต๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ -๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐", writes Richard A. Blake. "๐ฐ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐."
▪Cuarรณn explains how he uses his imagery to cross-reference fictional and futuristic events with real, contemporary, or historical incidents:
“They exit the Russian apartments, and the next shot you see is this woman wailing, holding the body of her son in her arms. This was a reference to a ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐๐๐๐, crying with the corpse of her son. It's very obvious that when the photographer captured that photograph, he was referencing ๐๐ ๐๐ข๐๐ญ๐̀, the ๐ด๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ sculpture of Mary holding the corpse of Jesus.”
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