Strike Entertainment and Hit and Run
Productions Company released the film ‘Children of Men’ in 2006. Alfonso
Cuaron, who also directed films like ‘Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban’
in 2004 and ‘Gravity’ in 2013, directed Children of Men. Now what the main message
in the film is trying to get across is government can betray their laws, and
start caring for everyone as an equal, including immigrants.
The film is shot in the near future, where
pollution and technology is high, and babies are few. How the film is shot
would be there is lighting involved due to the film being dark from pollution.
It is all filmed in England, they drive to a lot of woodland and urban areas
like London. The film is easy follow, helped by the way it is filmed and edited
together, there’s not much additional sound throughout so it is more natural
and makes the viewer concentrate more on the film and not the sound. Filming in
this type of style will make the view see more of the film, and not what is
going on around it.
With the characters in the film, there is a
relationship between the main character Theo Faron played by Clive Owen, and go
woman called Julian Taylor played by Julianne Moore, after they start to get
close again, Julian was shot and died by people who were with the Government
for immigration. Julian was mainly the only reason he was helping the
immigrant, and after she died he was going to leave, but then, he gets some new
motivation. The immigrant they were helping was pregnant; now this was the first
pregnancy for 18 years, so seeing the young girl Kee, played by Clare-Hope
Ashitey, gave Theo the motivation he started with. The main probably that they
face is getting Kee across England without being seen, but of course, she does.
Now if Kee were just a normal immigrant, the soldiers would have killed her,
but because she was holding a baby, everyone stopped and let here through
because being the first baby in 18 years. At the end of the film you see Kee
and Theo in boat at the destination they were going, but a twist is that Theo
got shot and bled out, so Kee was there with her baby and waiting. Now it ended
this way to get across that people would do anything, even die, to help someone
not their culture to survive and try and get a message across to the
Government.
‘Children of Men’ is a film mainly based on
survival and conflict. The survival part of it is to get the pregnant girl Kee
to ‘The Human Project’, but then through the film there is lots of conflict
between the Government people and the people helping immigrants. The Government
want immigrants dead, but because Kee is pregnant, people who believe in the
Human Project are helping and fighting against the Government to try and get a
little equality back in there society.
