Film Review: Children of Men

In a world where women no longer can have babieswill protect her and her baby from the political turmoil
and hope for the future of the human race stands withwhich has gripped the world.
the myth of a group of people trying to save humanityThe film itself is a return for director Cuaron to the
through The Human Project, Theodore "Theo" Faronmore intimate films like his Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN,
believes there is nothing left of humanity and that it willfollowing the more commercial HARRY POTTER &
all end in fifty years. This is the basic premise ofTHE PRISONER OF AZKABAN, GREAT
director Alfonso Cuaron's CHILDREN OF MEN, whichEXPECTATIONS (1998), and A LITTLE PRINCESS.
stars Clive Owen as Theo, Julianne Moore as hisAlthough predictable in its plot structure CHILDREN OF
estranged ex-wife and reistence leader Julian Taylor,MEN prevails thanks to the suburb casting especially
Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Michael Caine, who round out thenewcomer Ashitey who brings light humor to the role
cast. Similar in tone to the more overt sci-fi filmsthat stems from character and Kee's trying to deal
BLADE RUNNER and SCREAMERS, CHILDREN OFwith being the first women to be pregnant in eighteen
MEN brings its pesimistic view of the future and puts ityears. There are many unanswered questions within
just a few decades from modern times.the structure of the film that may turn off some
The story concerns Theo, a man who having lost allviewers but Cuaron is more worried about creating
hope and reason for living when his son died, must helpemotion out of the circumstances of the characters
Kee (Clair-Hope Ashitey) the first pregnant woman inthan with explaining how everything became the way
over eighteen years get to The Human Project, whoit is in his futuristic world.