Children of Men - Movie Review Example

One aspect of the film that seems not to be coming out real is its central theme; that of infertility. That idea that no human being has been born in almost the last two decades as a result of infertility in both sexes and that the last man on earth was born in 2009 is in itself fallacious (Children of Men, 2006). The entire world has been grappling with the issue of overpopulation since the turn of the century hence even the audience is anxious to know how this has been possible. When Theo and Kee meet in the movie, he is seen to be zealously protecting her from those who may want to harm her and the baby. The idea here, which again is fallacious is that Kees baby is a representative of the future generation, hence protecting it is akin to ensuring the perpetuation of the next generation. The fact also that Kees pregnancy is being portrayed as a miracle is fallacious (Children of Men, 2006). She must have been impregnated by a man, and not by the holy ghost as the movie is expecting the audience to believe. Another question one may ask is Kees baby is just one person, an individual, how can a single-sex ensure a successful perpetuation of an entire generation? How long would it take even if that was possible? These are fears any audience watching the film is bound to experience.

2BRO2B

The poem 2BRO2B to be or not to be has several similarities to the film Children of Men. We are introduced to a society initially in a perfect situation. A stable society with no wars, prisons or even insane asylums. The population is also stable. This is similar to the society portrayed in the film, where everything was stable until the leaders of those countries started to destroy their countries through bad governance. In this article 2BRO2B, Mr. Wehling is seen waiting for his wife to deliver. This is similar to what Theo is doing in the film. After realizing that there are no more births in the society, Theo decides to zealously care for Kee and her yet to be born baby. Here also, as in the film, Theo is the only one expecting a child as everyone else has become infertile resulting in no child being born in the last 18 years.

That Wehlings wife is expecting triplets is similar to the hope, Theo has that the children he is anticipating will help perpetuate the future generations. In both, the few children are expected to bring forth generation. We see Wehling expecting the child in a not so clean environment, a condition quite similar to the barn where Kee reveals to Theo about her pregnancy. We also meet mean people whose work is to dispose of bodies; we find gas chambers, those whose task is to saw off peoples limbs and concentration camp as talked about in the film and equated to the ones in Germany during the Nazi wars. The triplets are confronted with death just like Kees child is. Wehling is also referred to as the invisible man, by Dr. Ritz, though he is the father of the child, just like Kees child is said to have no father, and is here referred to as a miraculous pregnancy. Kees says she is a virgin. Just like the issue of infertility has helped control the population of the adults, in the film, here too we see Dr. Ritz and Mr. Wehling confronting the same problem of population control.

In the movie, many people sacrifice their lives in pursuit of good living in the United Kingdom which they consider a sanctuary. Wehling is so desperate to keep his children just like Theo is to keep Kees child. He is even ready to kill even himself just to make sure his children live. There is some resonance between the two decades in the film and the two decades in the movie during which there has been no births and two centuries in the BR2ORB.A cat box here is used to stand for a cage, a sort of restriction, which is similar to a cage as was used in the film to keep hold hostages. Not everyone died in the movie, and those who remained lived to tell the story of the past to the future generation. This is represented by the painter who declines to take his life but opts to wait and see the coming generation.

The Second Coming

The theme of hope is shown in the film through the normal birth of Kees child who is expected to help perpetuate the future generation. Here it is the revelation of the second coming of some influential person, which represents hope. The coming is compared to that of Jesus Christ, who is expected to bring with it good life to Christians. The child here has a lion body and the head of a lion. Jesus is coincidentally referred to in the bible as the lion of Judah. Desert birds represent life where there isn't much life, just like the people still existing in the film are those living despite the two decades lull in childbirth. The future generation is to survive in a place where there have been deaths too. Here they talk of twenty centuries of stony sleep, while in the movie it is twenty years of no childbirth. This hopelessness is suddenly interrupted by a rocking cradle. Just like Kees child is to be born after a twenty year period. Just like Jesus was born in Bethlehem, a foreign land, far from his parents home of Nazareth, and in a manger, Kees child is to be taken in a foreign land in the United Kingdom and most likely in a barn.

Reference

Children of Men (15). Universal Studios. British Board of Film Classification. 15 September 2006. Retrieved 10December 2017.