Children Of Men Review

Makayla Lovelace

Professor Juenger

Film 115

12 October 2018

                                                            Children Of Men

The movie Children of Men is a futuristic film and set in the year twenty-twenty seven.

In the year twenty-twenty seven, infertility was a big problem and it was rare for people to conceive children. Since infertility became a serious issue, people started to admire other’s children and idolize them, because they were considered the youngest people on earth. Furthermore, the world had become a corrupt and dangerous warzone that threaten the lives of mankind and killed the youngest person on earth. When the youngest person in the world died, it gave everyone a feeling of hopelessness. There was only one way to save mankind, and that was for someone to conceive a child. If a person gave birth to a child, the child would reign as the youngest person in the world; who eases the minds of others and put the world at peace.

The man by the name Theo Faron who was considered a well-respected person who had become accustomed to having a “rich” lifestyle and not being totally aware of the issues going on in the world at that time. Until he is put in a position of survival mode and faces many challenges trying to understand the issues and figures out how to save the world from danger by saving the life of a mother and a newborn child. In the film, there was a lot of cool techniques occurred in the film that is not very common in the movie business. Most movies take several shots through a film to execute everything perfectly, but in this film, everything was shot in one take  I believe it was very unique and different for the directors to do everything in one shot because it seems almost impossible or unrealistic for it happens. It was very interesting to see how the directors shot each of the action scenes and the processes they used, According to the director Alfonso Cuaron the reason why they wanted to shoot the film in long takes is that they wanted to take advantage of real-time and enhance the movie to make it seem more realistic. The long takes change the pace of the film ,because the watcher would grasp a better understanding of the movie . In addition ,they would develop an emotion towards the film  as it unfolds. If the film had a lot more cuts, it would make the pace of the film go by faster because everything would be glimpses of exactly what to expect. However, it is better to receive the full understanding of the film in longer shots, because with more cuts watchers would have to piece everything together mentally instead of visually. Even though longer shots seems to drag at times, it gives watchers a full explanation of what is going on in the film. Throughout the film, there is a lot of interaction between the environment and the camera to give watchers specific locations and also to give watcher a better visual idea of what the world may look like when the world ends or represent this moment in time as a period of survival. For example, towards the end of the film, Theo and Kee are trying to find safety while there is a massacre happening ending with many people being killed and many buildings being destroyed. In this particular scene, they were focusing more on the relationship between the camera and the environment by showing much more scenes of the abandoned and destroyed buildings that occurred during the commotion to symbolize darkness, chaos, and corruption that affected everyone immensely. In my opinion, this movie is one of the most interesting films I’ve seen in a very long time. The film stayed true to its purpose which was for the film to be portrayed to be as real as possible and visualized possible issues that could occur in the world. Furthermore, The movie had a great ending even though it was sad, because Theo died in the boat with Kee and her child heading to safety. But his death was much more meaningful ,he fulfilled his purpose  successfully by saving the life or a young mother and daughter .By Theo saving their lives it created a domino effect that potentially saves the lives of mankind and gave people a sense of security to feel as though there is hope for the future.