Children of Men

[Clickies]

Children of Men came out a few years ago and I managed to see it at the cinema, It's one of the few thought provoking DVDs that are on my 'must find' list, but I haven't yet seen it out here on DVD. It was defintely one of the msot interesting films I've seen in a while.

[Ricky]

I loved this film. I watched it (on Demand) with a few friends who all thought it was appalling, dreary and that it had no point to it. But for me I found it to be one of the-as you said-most thought provoking films I have seen in years.

The thought that we still to this day cannot truly recreate reproduction, that even in a petri dish something 'magic' still has to happen for the embryo to form, well in that situation would we just become as savage as they did? Turning to civil war, ghettoising immigrants-the immigrants in cages was especially shocking. But then if you are in the only functioning country in the world then yes, you would be overrun.

[snookumsnort]

I've always been a fan of Clive Owen. I have to say, though, that this is one of the strangest films I've seen. It's sad and hopeful at the same time. For those who haven't seen it, it's an almost apocalyptical film where humans have lost the ability to reproduce and the death of the youngest human alive has triggered mayhem in England...the only place that seems "sane".

[fidget]

I haven't seen it yet, but I read the book, and so I'm afraid to see it! Anyone read the book and still like the film?

[snookumsnort]

I didn't know there was a book on it! Did the book explain the reason why humans became unable to reproduce?

[AbigailD]

I must admit that having seen it I was hoping that the book went into more detail, though I have yet to read it. Fidget-did he expand upon what the woman went on to find-in the film we just saw her in the boat with the ship approaching, and then heard children's laughter. Did she somehow lead to a cure, or were there other fertile women on the ship?

[fidget]

Abigail, the book must have ended differently than the movie. The book just ended with her delivering the baby and the prof killing Xan.

I was actually surprised it was written by a woman when I got to the end. I just assumed PD James was a man.

[AbigailD]

I think I would have assumed the same. In the movie she delivered the baby in the refugee ghetto. Then the dude with her helped her to get through what was basically a huge civil war, and get to a row boat. But he gets shot on the way and so he is dead by the time the movie ends, having rowed her to the buoy that she is supposed to wait by.

[fidget]

hmmm, maybe I won't see the movie... sounds very different from the book.