where the world's headed

Rating: 10/10 (13 May 2007)

If you thought that "V for Vendetta" offered a bleak look at the future, just wait until you see "Children of Men". It portrays England in 2027. A pandemic many years earlier has caused infertility ever since. England has become a totalitarian state seeking to eliminate all illegal immigrants, and whenever politicians are in trouble, there occurs what the government claims is a terrorist attack (but the government probably was behind them*). That's when loner Theo Faron (Clive Owen) gets kidnapped by anti-government group The Fishes, who just might have the key to the future.
One of the movie's best aspects is the cinematography. There's a lot of hand-held long shots, creating a feeling of being there with the grim action. The dreary setting adds to this. As in "VFV", it becomes apparent that the revolutionaries might not be much different from the government which they oppose. But what's one to do in such a society? Especially one with the kind of immigration laws that would please only Tom Tancredo.
Anyway, this is one movie that I definitely recommend. It seems that the world is headed in this direction. It's something that everyone should understand. Also starring Julianne Moore, Michael Caine and Chiwetel Ejiofor.
*See also the Reichstag in Nazi Germany and the Kirov assassination in Stalin's USSR.