Horrifc visionary of the future of mankind

Rating: 9/10 (1 October 2006)

Children's laughter, children's cries. These have all vanished as Alfonso Cuarón tells us a story of the possibility of women being infertile by using a gritty, war torn backdrop with an unlikely saviour. I completely took this movie word-for-word as I watched it; I couldn't sit back and not pay attention because I was immersed into the fallen nation of a post apocalyptic 2027 because of the solid acting of Owen, Caine and Moore. The cinetography played an important role in the film as well, it played you. It played the man watching Owens character struggle through London's brilliantly remastered city to the shanty towns of the English coast because of the natural progression of the cameras movement, it was so natural. I really thought Cuarón paid close attention on Britain's society, it was so plausible, it brought a new definition of a British stereotype when he made the sub characters to be so diverse, it could almost bring fourth a possibility for this likelihood to actually happen. I always thought the achievement of capturing the heart of a viewer was so hard to master, the expression given on the first child born in over 18 years was simply remarkable, I gave heart in hand as I witnessed the scene of two opposing forces to stop their conflict and bow down to a newborn child. The film was executed perfectly bringing both a scary crisis of the future and an epic struggle to solve it. 9/10