I found Children of Men to be a really good watch, it had a really dark but surreal feel to it because it feels so much like how things are now in the world. Especially, given similarities like the global pandemic and whatnot, which is pretty crazy when you consider the film came out in 2006. The film focuses itself around the idea that its 2027 and the world has been in a state of total human infertility for 18 whole years. Then the youngest of them all passes and its devastatingly dark and miserable. Then the product of this catastrophe, at least in England, is to stop all immigration, becoming a place lead by the police. Killing and imprisoning immigrants. Despite this however, there is a single pregnant refugee called Kee, who the main character, Theo Faron comes across due to a series of events and choses to care for and protect. Switching the whole film from this horrible reality, to a story with some hope for humanity's survival.
After watching it, I'm honestly quite dumbfounded as to why this didn't do so well when it first came out. It's genuinely a great watch and actually has an interesting theme and core idea. I personally thoroughly enjoyed the film and found it to be quite refreshing when I tried to compare this to other films I've seen in the past. It's really well written and if I had to rate it out of 10 I'd probably give it an 8 or higher.
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