Every now and then, a movie comes along which keeps you enthralled from the first minute right up until the end credits roll. Children Of Men does this, and keeps you thinking, well after you leave the cinema.
From the starting sequence, where we see the result of a society where no children have been born in just over 18 years. The death of the “youngest person alive,” juxtaposed with the terrorist attack which narrowly misses the hero, Theo, (“If you took cream and sugar, my friend, you might not be here now”), and the dystopian London that we see glimpses of demonstrate how bad a world without the voices of children would be.
(more…)
