On the occasion of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, I just watched this film and thought that this comment was also very suitable for the film. It can be regarded as keeping up with current events.
Six years later, in 2027, human beings will lose their fertility for some unnamed reasons in the film. There will be no children born for 18 years, and the end of mankind has come. The world is in chaos, the world is in crisis, and countless countries are divided in the smoke of gunpowder. Refugees are pouring into London, England, looking for their last refuge. The government strictly controls the smuggling of refugees, and the contradiction between the two is getting worse day by day.
Our male protagonist was in such an environment. One day, he was kidnapped on the street and taken to a small house. There, he met his ex-wife Julian, with whom they had a child named Dylan, who later died. Julian has become a wanted criminal for the government, and she is the leader of a radical organization called Fish. She wants to escort a girl out of here to join the "Human Project", and hopes that the male protagonist will get a pass through his brother who is engaged in art.
The male protagonist agreed and went on the road with Julian and other members of the organization. On the way, they encountered thugs and police. Julian was shot and killed. The group came to a stronghold to live. The male protagonist learned that the refugee girl Julian was escorting was pregnant. In the evening, the male protagonist accidentally discovered that there was an infighting in the organization. Julian was killed by the police who were bought by the members of the organization. They also killed the male protagonist and announced the news of the girl's pregnancy to the outside world to attract people to join him. government confrontation.
The male lead decisively led the girl and another member, the aunt, to leave. They came to the house of the male lead's reclusive friend Jasper. After a short break, they set off again to try to contact an informant whom Jasper knew before heading to the ship "Tomorrow." , join the "Human Project". The three left, and Jasper was shot dead by police who arrived later. A group of three contacted the man, and under his guidance, went out to find a gypsy woman. On the bus, the girl's amniotic fluid broke, and another member, the aunt, was killed by prayer.
The male protagonist took the girl to find the gypsy woman. The girl gave birth to a child. It was a girl. The two escorted the child to board the "Tomorrow" at the agreed place. They passed through the refugee camp and the smoke of gunfire, and witnessed the fighting between the remaining members of the organization and the government forces. The soldiers on both sides heard the cries of the children and lowered their guns, protected the two to pass, and then continued to fight. The two reconnected with the gypsy woman, who had prepared a boat for them, and the two floated out of the sewers to the agreed buoy. The male protagonist was seriously injured and finally died of bleeding. The girl named the child Dylan.
The "Tomorrow" came, and the girl took her daughter aboard and immersed in the sea of children's laughter.
"Children of Men" is the 2006 work of Alfonso Cuarón, one of the "Three Heroes of Mexican Cinema". It was changed from the novel of the same name, and it is in collaboration with the Mexican photographer Emmanuel Lubezki. There are several wonderful long shots in the film, including the car chase scene where Julian died and the refugee camp under the war. The film is not actually a sci-fi film. The people in the apocalypse are very real, the light and ugliness of human nature are still displayed together, and the smoke of war is still permeating among the refugees. Perhaps, as the citation for this year's Nobel Prize in Literature says, Alfonso Cuarón penetrates uncompromisingly and compassionately about the fate of refugees in the divide between different cultural continents.
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