Children of Men Reflection

(My computer wasn't formatting my paragraphs right and I tried to fix it but it wouldn't change so sorry about the weird format this is in)

Everything about this movie I absolutely loved. To start off, the plot. A world where women aren’t able to get pregnant sounds bad, but when you think about it more, its just terrible! In class we discussed this and how it shows the end of the human race. The thought of that is just terrifying. Living in a world where there’s no new life in the world is such a strange concept. I’m not a big fan of kids, but living in a world like that I think I would miss kids and newness quality they have. Hearing the story from Miriam about how she was experiencing the first signs of infertility throughout all of the hospitals and all of the miscarriages the women were having was so intriguing. But, I had a feeling something was going to happen to her when Theo said she was there for the end of it and she was going to be there for the beginning because they kept killing off characters you would think would live, but no.

Another thing I enjoyed was how they killed characters left and right. Some of the characters you would think would live till the end, died. There aren’t many movie like this one where they do that and I think its a nice change of pace. It bothered me when Theo died in the end, but in a way it would have been weird if he didn’t die.

The scene that stuck out to me the most was when Kee, Theo, and the baby were walking through all of the soldiers and they all stopped fighting, made a path, and stood there in awe. The battle they were suppose to be fighting wasn’t important because they were all seeing something that was almost foreign to them. New life. What really surprised me the most was the second they heard a ruckus, they completely shut down their feelings and any emotion they had, turned to the building, and started shooting their weapons like nothing had happened. There had not been a baby in over eighteen years and they were looking at something that was barely a day old. Yet, they continued what they were trained for and started fighting.

This movie was a really intense one, that made you feel what the actors were feeling, but the thing I liked most about this movie was a lot of it was about hope. Theo was helping Kee, a complete stranger, because she was pregnant, and in a way I think he helped her because he was hoping she could save the planet. They were also going through all of the dangers throughout the entire movie, getting arrested, going to the immigrant place, almost dying multiple times to try and find something that might not even exist. The Human Project. Their whole journey was completely and utterly based on hope. There was no guarantee that The Human Project was real, or even any signs. They were relying solely on hope that it wasn’t a myth, and that they could find it so Kee could get there and they would help her with her child and what to do with it.