As depressing as close to reality

Rating: 9/10 (2 April 2017)

"Children of men" is one of the few movies that manage to create an image of the future that has proved to be not too far away from how reality could look like. In fact one of the greatest strengths of the film for me is, that it establishes a rough and dirty image of a future world that still has enough in common with reality to make it believable. There are no hover-boards or air-crafts flying around, no stylish future-items or anything, just a degree of progress that you would easily accept. Of course it missed some of the things that actually have established by now but I guess the technical development of the past few years was a very rapid one. Also I find it one of the more believable options of apocalypse that infertility somehow gets common.
Sadly, in some parts the movie is already not too far away from reality nowadays. We do see the strong desire to re-establish nationalism in many countries, including methods like building walls and gathering people to bring them out of country. The general mood towards refugees gets rougher as their numbers increase. I instantly had to think of phenomena like the jungle in Calais and felt strongly reminded.
As for the story it is a solid one, nothing spectacular but it kept me entertained. The characters weren't the deepest ones I've ever seen but neither were they unbearably flat, so I was pretty satisfied. The only thing that I really don't believe is that all of a sudden everybody forgets about the baby and they can escape. I mean it is literally not far away from seeing ghosts in such a situation. You wouldn't just turn around and keep fighting, at least I had wished for a more plausible reason.
Nonetheless, "children of men" is an excellent film. If you haven yet to give it a try, do so. It is maybe more current than ever.