Alfonso Cuaron Children Of Men Essay

Alfonso Cuaron’s Children of Men, based on a book by P.D. James, is one of the greatest movies made during the 2000s, implicitly or explicitly referencing and discussing urgent world issues in a near-future, science fiction environment, when these issues have all snowballed into a drawn-out apocalypse. The background is as follows: all women have mysteriously become infertile by the late 2000s, and the world began to disintegrate immediately after that as everyone lost hope. By 2027, the beginning of the movie’s plot, virtually only Britain survived with any semblance of stability—only at the cost of being governed by a fascistic government and being besieged by refugees. Theo, a drunken bureaucrat, was contacted by his former partner Julian …show more content…
Children of Men referenced detainee abuses in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, especially in the scenes of the Bexhill ‘welcoming centre’, where random detainees are stripped, beaten, arbitrarily humiliated, sexually harassed, and possibly executed, all in the manner of world-famous images of hooded detainees in American prisons. Children of Men is quite possibly one of the greatest and most relevant movies made in the last decade. The verisimilitude of a bleak 2027 is fascinating, especially since the director tried his best to connect it with contemporary issues and projecting the future. This review alone only discusses one aspect of the great movie, that of Britain becoming a surveillance and fascistic state, but many reviews could be written about virtually any aspect of the film. Children of Men gives a dire warning to the contemporary world if it continues in the current trajectory, the world may look something like the one created by Cuaron (with