Children of Men

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Originally Posted by Aaron Contreras

Children of Men, on the other hand is all about the 'meaning' and doesn't even completely resolve the 'what if'. The core store of a sterile world confronted with the first pregnancy in 18 years is kind've irrelevant compared to everything else going on. This movie uses the 'what if' to slip past our preconceptions of fact and fiction - it wants to unsettle you with the realization that everything bad happening in this movie is happening right now in the world - some of it doubtless outside your window

i mean, i agree that it isn't just sci-fi, but i guess i don't buy into the duality between fiction/speculation/narrative vs. truth/issues/NOW. i'd be more into the concept of Children Of Men as an unsettling movie about the times posing as a sci-fi film if it weren't 95% about "THE TIMES" (with bonus futuristic premise) and didn't come across as being--slightly--heavy-handed as a result. i'd have hoped for it to be a little cleverer, for a truly subversive and unsettling story.