Ideas behind Film Need to be Further Examined

Rating: 4/10 (12 March 2008)

I really wanted to like this movie. I admire Clive Owen and take interest in presentations of dystopian alternate universes. The film is great, visually, and there is definitely a tense sense of conflict throughout for viewers. However, the writing and ideas behind the film should be further analyzed. If you like Leftist anti-Western Civilization propaganda, or suffer from a major mental illness, this is just the movie for you.
The absurd plot is based on the idea that women will cease to have babies because of something mankind did to the planet to somehow end births You get the drift: anti-capitalist; anti-business; anti-Big Bad Corporations.
So naturally, the people of this future world go absolutely ape, tribal and start killing off one another with glee after the awful truth sinks in that they are the last generation. This to my mind would be a rather bizarre reaction, since a zero population growth would open up all sorts of employment opportunities in the more wealthy nations, and, logically, immigrants -- the object of Government hatred in this movie -- would be welcome to keep things moving until the end days, even if they are illegal.
I realize that facts, logic and reason have little to do with modern film making by the neo-Communist Alfonso Cuarón, but after introducing us to this "Brave New World" of a brutal, dark and dirty Bombay looking futuristic London, bombs start going off, and before you can say, "Holy Crap!," rebels jump out of nowhere to take the hero, Theo (rather anti-hero, he's a drunk) into the heart of darkness where "Homeland Security" (British soldiers wearing American style uniforms and helmets) seem to be killing out of hand everyone who isn't British, or throwing a lucky few into concentration camps for deportation.
Of course, the soldiers and police are themselves being bumped off in wholesale lots by the rebels who don't take anyone prisoner for long except for our hero and drunk , Theo (who really gets into Drunk Acting 101 with attention to details like always carrying a bottle, losing his shoes and never taking off his raincoat), although it does help that Julian, his Feminazi girlfriend, is one of the Head Rebels. I suppose her character is meant to represent the "good and pure women" in this era who drop everything to oppose the "Fascist" regime of the day.
Then our anti-hero Theo meets up with an elderly Michael Caine. A sort of "grandfather hippie" with long gray hair and they have a discussion on why women can't have children -- I couldn't follow the logic his explanation, but I think it was just a general denouncing of the Industrial Revolution as the root cause of the end of births, you know, typical Leftist cheap thought.
After that glorious scene, the story becomes a mad rush across a bleak Britain where the sun never shines, but finally our anti-hero Theo meets up with The Pregnant Girl, Kee (The first mother-to-be in twenty years who just happens to be a black and a single mom for reasons of multiculturalism and political correctness) whom he takes (I missed the reason) to something called the "Human Project." This makes both the Government and Rebels very unhappy and gives them an excuse to create an even higher body count in comic book style action and another video game for the personal computer.
Ronbo give this movie only a one star rating for being crude, stupid and anti-American.
How about more realistic movie about Britain twenty years into the future where Islam has taken over the country and by force converted all Britons to Islam, or killed all of them, except for one lone pregnant Christian woman who is attempting to flee Britain to Christian America with the help of an atheistic yet noble modern day knight and member of the Underground while hunted by various Islamic militas and the dark forces of the Islamic Republic of Britain?