Children of men opens in an apocalyptic future where the world has not seen birth of a child for last eighteen years. Set in 2027, the film presents a very bleak picture of a world that has lost its fertility. Interestingly no reason for that is given and viewers are left to wonder why exactly have all women suddenly become barren. Many American women struggle with infertility and according to statistics, one in eight women would need some kind of fertility treatment to have children. But the situation is nowhere as worse as the film presents. This raises the question as to why would the director choose to present the world in such a dark light? Is he trying to make us think about infertility in general? Was this an attempt to connect infertility with despair and gloom in the apocalyptic world? Is there a theological message woven somewhere deep within the storyline? On closer analysis, we find that there is a little of every one of those links available in the film. The director does want us to ponder the possible expansion of infertility to the extent that no woman can conceive at all. With no future to look forward to, the world has gone berserk and the entire system has started crumbling around us. The only child born after 18 years is closely linked to the birth of Jesus as Kee's husband is unknown and unseen and her child is seen as the savior of the human race. "Thinking as a Hobby" is an interesting article that helps us understand the three levels of thinking. Golding, the author of Lord of the Flies, says that at the lowest level is the grade three thinker and at the top is grade 1 thinker. Analyzing the film on these three levels would not be easy but might actually be good since it would allow us to see the shallowness...
We can live without children and still have a happy healthy live because a grade two thinker is only interested in looking for contradictions.
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