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User Reviews for: Children of Men

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10/10  7 years ago
Cuarón demonstrates prime command of his lens and script to pull off a poignant balancing act of raw optimism, cautionary tale, and religious fable. And as with all great art, his story’s content commands its form. Cuarón channels our empathy towards Theo, a pessimistic everyman suddenly thrust into a crusade to protect a pregnant woman from the grasps of an now-infertile Earth. As we witness his existential growth into a more faithful guardian, the director ensures we are never detached from the violent social unrest, making use of long tracking shots and an emphasis on closed spaces to encapsulate us in this detailed dystopia as well as provide a continuous aura of uncertainty and quiet melancholia...not without a quip or two to spare.

By relying on a simplistic narrative framework to communicate its more complex themes, the film is beautifully Aesopian in its storytelling. It’s through Theo’s passing interactions with both sides of the populace, rather than exposition, that provide further enlightenment on the oppressive society and its immoral attitudes. With this also comes Biblical enlightenment, with Cuarón making figurative, sometimes ironic, use of classic fable archetypes to provide musings on the power of faith over mere chance and ultimately use the mother’s journey as a powerful allegory of the coming of Christ: a savior that will bring forth hope, justice, and peace. And without Theo, his own savior, what would’ve been the fate of children of men?
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