Children of Men

The film I decided to cover this week is Children Of Men directed by Alfonso Cuaron. It is about a post apocalyptic world where everyone has become infirtle and no more babies are being born. The main character, Theo meets up with his ex-wife Julian to help a young woman named Kee to safety. Kee is pregnant with the first baby in over 18 years. The cast includes Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Claire-Hope Ashitey, and Michael Caine.

What I enjoyed most about the movie was the character development that the main character Theo went on. At the beginning of the movie he seems to be just a sad man who does not care about life and is questioning whether or not to even keep on living. When Julian shows up to ask for his help he is only in it for the money and does not really care about helping anyone. When Julian gets shot that is the first time we really see him express any emotions about what is going on. 

Later on when he finds out that Kee is pregnant he is shocked but he still did not seem that interested in helping her. When the group is deciding what to do with Kee and the baby Theo suggests that they just bring her to some doctors which seemed like he was just trying to push the problem to the next person and not make it his problem anymore. It is not until Theo overhears the other group members talking about how they were going to take the baby away from Kee once it was born to stop the uprising that he really seemed to care about what happened to her and wanted her to be safe. He knew that this was something that Julian really cared about and that she was willing to die to make it happen.

As they continue to travel Theo began to grow more closer to Kee and her nurse, Miriam. So when the government took Miriam away when she was trying to keep Kee safe he seem devastated that she was going to get hurt. Once the baby was finally born Theo was willing to do anything to make sure that the baby was safe. He was running through the streets barefoot, he was getting shot at, and eventually he does really get shot. This leads to his death at the end of the movie that resulted from trying to keep Kee and the baby safe. It was such a contrast from when we are first introduced to him at the beginning when he did not really care about anything, and then by the end of the movie he cares so much that he was willing to die for them.