Goodbye Ruby Tuesday, Hello Hope of Tomorrow

Rating: 10/10 (11 January 2007)

This cinematic version of P.D. James' bleak yet beautiful tale of an infertile future stands alone in its greatness. From the beginning scene in the coffee shop where it is announced the youngest child on earth had died at the age of 18, you are set in a world of no hope. The first part of the movies concept being, what is there to live for when there is no one living tomorrow? The second concept being, die trying so those tomorrow have at least a chance to try. Theodore Faron (Clive Owen) is the central character who has chosen to risk life and limb to bring Kee (Claire-Hope Ashitey) to The Human Project. The Human Project headquarters if you will is a boat adrift at sea, that is a symbol of a new start for civilization. This movie has so much symbolism going on its mind-blowing. From Jasper (Michael Caine) to Clive Owens,'s shoes it makes you watch and examine what the meaning of the film is truly about. The meaning of the film mostly being the concept of winning the fight's over your trial and tribulations. Human survival, government oppression, racism, infertility; the idea that humans can and will outlast any problem that comes there way. I think the strongest point of this though is used through a song, "Ruby Tuesday." So many lines referencing the current state of things in London and throughout the world. The clearest being "Yesterday doesn't matter if it's gone." In other words goodbye Ruby Tuesday, hello hope of tomorrow and save the children of men.