Children of Men

An interesting SF disaster film did not crowd ticket sellers at the box office with work, but it offered good performances.

In the year 2027, eighteen years after the birth of the last child, the fallen Theo (Clive Owen) will unexpectedly become a hero of the human kind when his former lover asks him to escort a young pregnant woman as soon as possible from the country knee deep in civil war.

The script is simple, but it consists of many complex things. What is especially interesting is that the broader public got an insight into the potentially truly justified fear through Children of Men. Global warming? We will construct cities under water! Sun explosion? We will find some other planet. But what if we become sterile? What if we loose the power of reproduction, now, right away, and medicine does not have a solution. Now, this is bad.

Director Alfonso Cuaron wrote the script, more precisely, with a group of associated adapted Phyllis Dorothy James` novel, and he did it quite well. Oscar nominations, review praise, but it did not do well at the box office. According to available information, it still has not paid off its 75 million budget. The truth is still hardest to face. Even if it is completely made up.