Cuarón's Children Of Men

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Children of Men is a cautionary tale of a society on the brink of extinction. This analysis will examine the characteristics of this dystopian future.
This unconventional approach allows the audience to relate to their own circumstances and therefore, connect with the movie in a deeper way. Julianne More, an Academy Award- winner who also plays the character Julian in the movie, is famous for saying, “the audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves” ("Biography for Julianne Moore"). Cuarón’s technique skillfully brings the audience along on the thrill ride and adds to the shock by leaving them with an eerie image of the world they live in.
Infertility
In Children of Men, Cuarón portrays a world of imminent genetic erasure. Humankind has not seen a baby born for 18 years and at the same time, are mourning the recent death of the youngest person on Earth. According to Nanelle R. Barash and David R. Barash, dystopian science fiction share a them of "denial of biology"-a denial of human's basic needs.The prospect of genetic continuity is completely absent – a prospect that “is the motivation underlying sex, love, and indeed everything in the organic world”. Infertility, therefore, not only means the absence of children, but, worse, the absence of hope and sense of purpose. When we lose purpose, we simply give up …show more content…

According to Slavoj Žižek, a renowned continental philosopher and critical theorist, one of the possible explanations is that Britain’s government has a de facto constitution (no written core constitution) and works, according to Žižek, based on “substance of tradition” and history. The picture on the left was drawn for the Times Higher Education Supplement about the "precedent, pageantry, mythology and phantasm that is Britain’s unwritten constitution"(Airforce Amazons). In such a country, the loss of a "historical dimension", the "substance of meaning" would be most devastating to the nation and its

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