Children of Men

For this week, one of the recommended movies was Children of Men. I had not previously seen this movie, but had heard about it that I decided to check it out. This film was definitely not what I had expected. In truth, I actually really disliked Children of Men. Nothing that occurred during the course of the film was remotely interesting to me and I did not like the plot.
Children of Men takes place in 2027 in a world where women can no longer conceive. No one has been able to become pregnant within eighteen years and miraculously a woman does. The rest of the film is about Clive Owen and his journey to help this woman get to freedom and safety from dystopian London with violence and warring nationalistic sects. The course of actions that occur do not make sense and explosions and incidents occur without any explanation of how that happened and what was even happening. At the very beginning of the film a building blows up and that explosion is really unnecessary. That does not help the plot and it does not really even explain why there are explosions happening randomly. Nothing was set up for the viewer. The ending was also extremely unsatisfying. Clive Owen dies with the woman and her baby in a row boat in the middle of this random body of water. She is left all alone to wait for a mystery boat that may not even exist. They went through this entire journey for a mystery Human project that no one was actually completely positive of it actually existing. I can understand why they would try; they had nothing to lose, but just the fact of it is ridiculous. They broke into an immigrant camp that was a whole lot like concentration camps which was really disturbing. That made me think about how if we do not look at history, it will repeat itself, which is clear in this film that they did not learn from the past. The cinemetography was fine, I was mostly unimpressed with the plot and subplots throughout the film.