Look for a magic ship

Rating: 4/10 (10 October 2015)

The widespread critical and popular acclaim of this movie is surprising. This movie is wrong and stupid on many levels. To begin with I will say few good things about the spectacle. The movie does a good job portraying the desperation of human race. The loss of fertility and how people are losing hope was portrayed quite nicely. You feel for them and get desperate along with characters. Before I start talking about what actually is going in the plot, I will have to mention few basic facts about what must have been going on in such world. First of it is obvious that there must exist a gigantic scientific effort to understand why and solve the problem. This will most likely take a form of a large network of multinational government funded research centers. By this time everyone understands that if problem isn't solved humanity "goes bananas". Over the years such centers must have come up with some understanding. All their tiny, even nonexistent progress should be widely publicized to a population hungry for any straw of hope. In the movie, however, the only mentioned research center is a ship, which somehow exists without supplies and without any government supporting it. Even assuming such state of affairs, a militaristic nation such as UK is portrayed in the movie would quickly apprehend it to give people hope. What happens when a baby comes into such desperate and hopeless world? The mother herself or anyone close or anyone who knows her during pregnancy should submit to authorities. This is way ensures that the information goes public and people get hopeful again. This also assures that infertility research center gets hold of her. Not only they will be able to help and provide for her, but also they will make tremendous progress in combating affliction. The news of this will immediately infuse the whole world with hope and outlook for the future, after years of desperation. A pregnant woman submitting to the authorities will be the single greatest good thing that can happen in such world. And we know that the government is tyrannical, it has resources since it exerts tight control over the public, we can therefore conclude it has resources to conduct research and protect the young woman. It is hinted in the movie that such outcome might be undesirable because anti-immigration stance and overt racism. Those arguments are nonsense. Due to desperation and absence of hope the government faces complete chaos, anarchy, and degradation. The only chance to avoid impending apocalypse is to solve the infertility issue. Even appearance of a progress would give tremendous benefits to easing the unrest and restoring the order. So what happens in the movie is some weird small gang of revolutionaries/terrorists gets hold of the pregnant woman. This people are either completely evil or tremendously stupid since they deliberately prevent this woman to submit to authorities. The head of the organization, seemingly reasonable person, portrayed by Julianne Moore, doesn't think of giving people at large any hope either. Then there appears a genuinely good person, a protagonist of the story portrayed by Clive Oven. Instead of doing the right thing – immediate submission to authorities, he decides to steal the girl for the most retarded purpose anyone could think of. Here is his thinking process: "There exist a magic ship, with best research facilities on board. This ship will be somewhere close to the shore on that day near that harbor. So I'm gonna risk her (and my) life, put her into a flimsy boat and paddle out into the open sea. Never-mind my wounds, never-mind the fog, never-mind the waves, which could easily turn the boat over and drown us, never mind I will never find the ship even if it came, since I can't see anything 10m away. I will still go look magic ship because someone told someone who told someone that it is going to be there". Risking life and last hope of humanity for a fantasy is preposterous. I admit that meaning of ship might be symbolic, I but no matter how you cut it, going for the ship is evil because it is taking hope away from people.