Children Of Men Alfonso Cuaron s Courage - 1009 Words

Vishal Patel Prof. Hartlen Writing about Film (English BXE) November 27, 2015 Children of Men: Alfonso Cuarà ³n’s Courage to Showcase a Powerless Society The year is 2027 and the world is being redefined by a year long infertility crises that threatens the human race. Gangs form the innocents while the elderly desperately lineup for government sponsored euthanasia: Quietus. The United Kingdom, being the only stable nation, is under a refugee crisis of people fleeing the chaos that has taken out around the world. This situation resembles a lot to Nazi Germany and also what has been current in news these days. Nicole L. Sparling writes in her article, â€Å"Without a Conceivable Future† published in 2014, â€Å"As it is set in a world without a ‘conceivable’ future, Children of Men, I contend, when understood through the lens of science fiction, reveals the crises of representation embodied in biopolitical figures, such as bare life, and exposes serious implications for re-productive, civil, and human rights. Such an aesthetic, I argue, transfigures the concepts of nation, hope, and futurity and their symbolic weigh t on actual bodies within the world of the film† (160). This statement draws his attitude toward the film which is multilayered and genially arranged by director Alfonso Cuarà ³n. The film tries to convey a state of urgent for humans to take action and gain control of our ill planet. Cuarà ³n effectively achieves to convey this message by creating a dystopian world where