This weekend I saw the new movie "Children of Men." The setting is a very-near and all-too-real future where humans have trashed the environment, civilation has begun to collapse, and humans have become infertile. It isn't uplifting, but it is very thought provoking and I recommend seeing it. Plus it stars the talented Julianne Moore.
The movie intelligently dabbles in several pressing issues: illegal immigration, environmental degradation, poverty, martial law, and homeland security. Expect to be disturbed by what it presents (hinted at in the trailer below).
From Yahoo Movies: A futuristic society faces extinction when no children are born and the human race has lost the ability to reproduce. England has descended into chaos, until an iron-handed warden is brought in to institute martial law. The warden's ability to keep order is threatened when a woman finds that she is pregnant with what would be the first child born in 27 years.
Here is the trailer.
3 comments:
READ THE BOOK! It's so much better - really does a good job of making you understand the despair of an ending civilization. I was disappointed by the movie. Although I must caveat this by saying that I never actually got to the end of the book - and I was hoping the movie would provide answers. (I listened to it on tape on a roadtrip that didn't last long enough, and then the tapes were due back to the library.)
I seen that 2 weeks ago, get with the program!
I'm glad you liked this movie. I saw it awhile back and thought it was great. Pretty hard to watch at points, but certainly well worth it!
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