Realistic vision of the future?

Rating: 6/10 (22 September 2006)

Aside from the main theme of infertility this film is interesting for the bleak vision of the future it offers. With shades of Blade Runner we see a dying world, focusing upon Britain with hints of an even bleaker world outside Britain. With references possibly to the book 'Camp of the Saints' it seems that most of the rest of the world seems to want to enter Britain as a relative safe haven leading to a never ending stream of unwanted 'illegal immigrants', the tide of which is combatted by an extreme populist New Labour style Department of Homeland Security. The resistance are portrayed as a kind of far left 'Worker's Revolutionary' underground, possibly even more brutal than the government; with militant Islam hovering ever present, ready to take over if either the government or resistance should fail - and with terrorist bombs going off all over. One of the most uncomfortable premises resulting from all this, is does it pander to current far-right fears today of uncontrolled mass immigration and what Britain might look like/ be like in the quite near future - i.e a society in chaos and at war with itself? Overall, I found the central theme a little too simplistic, but the style excellent. I would recommend you see for yourself....