Children Of Men Essay

Children of Men, directed by Alfonso Cuaron, is a tragic sci-fi thriller that plays with the idea that in just a few years from now woman become infertile. The film opens in 2027, when the world’s youngest person has been stabbed to death because he declined to give an autograph. Theo Faron, the main tragic hero, seems to be living life waiting to die.

The story opens with Theo, watching the news in a café and then leaves with his coffee in his hand. As he stops to pour some brandy into his coffee a bomb destroys the café with everyone in it. The way that its shot gives the vibe that it’s not to unusual that a bomb goes off in a café. Britain, as the last functioning nation, has closed its borders and is engaged in a war between the establishment and a band of rebels who support immigrant rights. This group then kidnaps Theo, lead by Julian Taylor, who was once Theo’s lover and mother to a child they lost many years ago. Julian’s group, The Fishes, wants Theo’s influence to get transit papers for a refugee, Kee, so the young woman can be smuggled out of the country and to get to a rumored safe haven. Kee is the key to the future of the continual existence of the human race because she is the first woman to be pregnant in the past 18 years.

As Theo, Julian, and Kee make there way to the first border
Reversal seems to be the most dramatic out of the three. Theo’s reversal happened when Kee actually had her baby. He finally acknowledged that the first baby girl was born right in front of him, and its up to him to take them to safety. He switched his mind thought from being selfish to selfless. Before the baby was born, he was only protecting Kee because that was what Julian would have done. The actual visual of the baby made him realize how much bigger the situation is and that’s its solely left to him to make sure it goes as