Children of Men is a 2006 apocalyptic science fiction film directed by Alfonso Cuaron, who also directed such films as Y tu Mama Tambien, and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
The story takes place in a dystopian society in the year 2027, where the world is cursed because infertility of humans has swept the planet. Because of this, terrorism, social collapse and millions of refugees are on the rise, across the world, especially in Britain. Society's only hope lies with the "Human Project" a secret group trying to save the human species from extermination. Suddenly a pregnant West African refugee who is stuck in Britain appears, and is helped by the Human Project because she is pregnant. While trying to save her and take her to the boarder, in order for the Human Project to successfully help her out, the main group of people also need to keep her a secret from the British government in order for her to not be exploited.
There are many themes in Children of Men one being Hope. "The film's source, the novel The Children of Men by P. D. James, describes what happens when society is unable to reproduce, using male infertility to explain this problem. The film switches the infertility to females, but never explains the cause: environmental destruction and divine punishment are considered. The "almost mythical" Human Project, with their goal of creating a new world, is turned into a 'metaphor for the possibility of the evolution of the human spirit, the evolution of human understanding.' Without dictating how the audience should feel by the end of the film, Cuarón encourages viewers to come to their own conclusions about the sense of hope depicted in the final scenes: 'We wanted the end to be a glimpse of a possibility of hope, for the audience to invest their own sense of hope into that ending. So if you're a hopeful person you'll see a lot of hope, and if you're a bleak person you'll see a complete hopelessness at the end.'"
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