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Children Of Men: Loss Of Hope And Religion
Children of Men In the film Children of Men there were many themes that were shown throughout the movie. The themes that I was able to pull out and see were themes of Faith, Hope/ Loss of Hope, and Religion. I feel like in this film these themes all go hand in hand and brought a biblical feel when you looked into some of the roles. In Children of Men, we see the results of a world stripped completely of hope. The film starts out with Theo sitting in a coffee shop watching on the news about the death of the 18-year-old who was the youngest person on the planet. Without a soul younger then 19 on the planet the film introduces us to a future without children and gives a world where all women are infertile and there is no hope left. We

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