Intolerance, Chaos, Infertility, Hope

Rating: 7/10 (14 July 2007)

In 2027, after eighteen years of infertility in a chaotic world and the death of the youngest man on Earth, the hopeless mankind is near the extinction. In London, the civil servant Theo Faron (Clive Owen) is contacted by his ex-wife and leader of the terrorist group The Fishes, Julian (Julianne Moore), to get a permission for the travel of the young woman Kee (Claire-Hope Ashitey) to a seaside town of refugees. Along their journey, Theo discloses that Kee is pregnant and tries to protect and deliver her to a peaceful group of a life project in a vessel called "Tomorrow" and give hope to the mankind.
"Children of Men" is an impressively pessimist view of the fate of mankind, with the growing intolerance generating chaos, anarchy and infertility. The scenes are extremely realistic and well directed and choreographed, and the unpleasant story gives a minor hope in the end. The most important certainly is the reflection that this film may cause in the viewers, disclosing a possible dark future of the world if, among other problems, peoples do not change the behavior accepting differences of other peoples. My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "Filhos da Esperança" ("Children of Hope")