True love

Rating: 10/10 (31 December 2011)

What a wonderful movie to discover on New Year's Eve! Gripping. Realistic. Hopeless. Real love. When everything fails, when the world is burning, there it is. One man. One woman. A child. It is a wonderful answer, both simple and powerful. What would happen if there are no more children? What is a man, without a woman and a child? What is a woman without a child? The child is the reason why we are growing as human beings, because there is nothing more difficult and beautiful than to be a father or a mother. And there is the solution to all the problems! Civilisation is failing, because there are no children, and children are both future and past. The sum of everything. In Chornobyl, the children were the first to go. The children are the first victims. In Africa, there are armies of children, here there are no children, and war is everywhere. What a beautiful story of redemption! What a wonderful story of true love between a man and a woman, both separated and united by the child they had, and lost, and the child to be born. Children of Men is a lesson of love. One of the most powerful movies I have seen. Superb!