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Co-writt and directed by Alfonso Cuarón. The screplay, based on P. D. James' 1992 novel The Childr of M, was credited to five writers, with Clive Ow making uncredited contributions. The film is set in 2027, wh two decades of human infertility have left society on the brink of collapse. Asylum seekers seek sanctuary in the United Kingdom, where they are subjected to dettion and refoulemt by the governmt. Ow plays civil servant Theo Faron, who tries to help refugee Kee (Clare-Hope Ashitey) escape the chaos. Childr of M also stars Julianne Moore, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Pam Ferris, Charlie Hunnam, and Michael Caine.
The film was released by Universal Pictures on 22 September, 2006, in the UK and on 25 December in the US. Critics noted the relationship betwe the US' Christmas oping and the film's themes of hope, redemption, and faith. Despite the limited release and lack of any clear marketing strategy during awards season by the film's distributor,
Childr of M received critical acclaim and was recognised for its achievemts in screwriting, cinematography, art direction, and innovative single-shot action sequces. It was nominated for three Academy Awards: Best Adapted Screplay, Best Cinematography, and Best Film Editing. It was also nominated for three BAFTA Awards, winning Best Cinematography and Best Production Design, and for three Saturn Awards, winning Best Scice Fiction Film. In 2016 it was voted 13th among 100 films considered the best of the 21st ctury by 117 film critics from around the world.
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In the year 2027, after eighte years of total human infertility, war and global depression have pushed society to the brink of collapse as humanity faces extinction. The United Kingdom has become a police state in which immigrants (derogatorily referred to as "'fugees") are arrested and either imprisoned or executed; still, as one of the few remaining nations with a functioning governmt, it is deluged by refugees fleeing chaos in their own countries.
The story begins just after the youngest person in the world, 18-year-old "Baby" Diego Ricardo, has be killed; Theo Faron, a former activist turned cynical bureaucrat, catches the news in a coffee shop. Momts after he leaves the shop, it explodes in a bombing. Theo is kidnapped by the Fishes, a militant immigrant-rights group led by Theo's estranged wife, Julian Taylor; the pair separated after their son's death during a 2008 flu pandemic. Julian offers Theo money to acquire transit papers for a young refugee woman named Kee. Theo obtains the documts from his cousin, a governmt minister, and agrees to escort Kee in exchange for a larger sum of money. Luke, a Fishes leader, drives Theo, Kee, Julian, and former midwife Miriam towards Canterbury, but an armed gang ambushes them and kills Julian. Two police officers later stop their car; Luke kills them, and the group hides Julian's body before heading to a safe house.
Kee reveals to Theo that she is pregnant, making her the only known pregnant woman in the world. Julian had intded to take her to the Human Project, a semi-legdary, secretive scitific group in the Azores dedicated to curing humanity's infertility, which Theo believes does not exist. Luke becomes the new leader of the Fishes, and that night, Theo eavesdrops on a discussion and learns that the Fishes orchestrated Julian's death so that Luke could become their leader, and that they intd to kill him and use Kee's baby as a political tool. Theo wakes Kee and Miriam, and they escape to the secluded hideaway of Theo's reclusive, ageing hippie frid Jasper Palmer, a former political cartoonist whose wife was tortured into catatonia by the British governmt for her activism.
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The group plans to reach the Human Project ship, the Tomorrow, scheduled to arrive offshore at Bexhill-on-Sea, a notorious immigrant dettion ctre. Jasper plans to use Syd, an immigration officer to whom Jasper sells cannabis, to smuggle them into Bexhill as refugees. The next day, the Fishes discover Jasper's house, and the group is forced to flee. Jasper stays behind to stall them, and is murdered by Luke as Theo watches. Theo, Kee, and Miriam meet with Syd, who helps them board a bus into the camp. Wh Kee begins expericing contractions, Miriam distracts a guard by feigning religious mania and is tak away.
Inside the camp, Theo and Kee meet a Romani woman, Marichka, who provides a room where Kee gives birth to a baby girl. Syd tells Theo and Kee the next day that war has brok out betwe the British military and the refugees, and that the Fishes have infiltrated the camp; he th reveals that Theo and Kee have a bounty on their heads and attempts to capture them. Theo subdues Syd with Marichka's help; they escape but are ambushed by the Fishes, who capture Kee and the baby. Theo tracks them to an apartmt building that is under heavy fire. Theo confronts Luke, who is killed in an explosion, and Theo escorts Kee and the baby out. Awed by the baby, the British soldiers and Fishes temporarily stop fighting and allow the trio to leave. Marichka leads them to the boat but chooses to stay behind as they depart.
As British fighter jets conduct airstrikes on Bexhill, Theo and Kee row to the rdezvous point in heavy fog. Theo reveals that he was shot and wounded by Luke earlier; he teaches Kee how to burp her baby, and she tells him she will name the baby girl Dylan, after Theo's and Julian's lost son. Theo smiles weakly, th loses consciousness as the Tomorrow approaches. As the scre cuts to black, childr's laughter is heard.
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The film's source, P. D. James' novel The Childr of M (1992), describes what happs wh society is unable to reproduce, using male infertility to explain this problem.
In the novel, it is made clear that hope depds on future gerations. James writes "It was reasonable to struggle, to suffer, perhaps ev to die, for a more just, a more compassionate society, but not in a world with no future where, all too soon, the very words 'justice', 'compassion', 'society’, 'struggle', 'evil', would be unheard echoes on an empty air."
Cuarón has attributed this unanswered question (and others in the film) to his dislike for purely expository film: "There's a kind of cinema I detest, which is a cinema that is about exposition and explanations ... It's become now what I call a medium for lazy readers ... Cinema is a hostage of narrative. And I'm very good at narrative as a hostage of cinema."
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Cuarón's disdain for back-story and exposition led him to use the concept of infertility as a "metaphor for the fading sse of hope".
The "almost mythical" Human Project is turned into a "metaphor for the possibility of the evolution of the human spirit, the evolution of human understanding".
Cuarón believed that explaining things such as the cause of the infertility and the Human Project would create a "pure scice-fiction movie", removing focus from the story as a metaphor for hope.
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Without dictating how the audice should feel by the d of the film, Cuarón courages viewers to come to their own conclusions about the sse of hope depicted in the final sces: "We wanted the d to be a glimpse of a possibility of hope, for the audice to invest their own sse of hope into that ding. So if you're a hopeful person you'll see a lot of hope, and if you're a bleak person you'll see a complete hopelessness at the d."
Like Virgil's Aeid, Dante's The Divine Comedy, and Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, the crux of the journey in Childr of M lies in what is uncovered along the path rather than the terminus itself.
According to Cuarón, the title of P. D. James' book (The Childr of M) is an allegory derived from a passage of scripture in the Bible.
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(Psalm 90 (89):3 of the KJV: "Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye childr of m") James refers to her story as a "Christian fable"
While Cuarón describes it as "almost like a look at Christianity": "I didn't want to shy away from the spiritual archetypes", Cuarón told Filmmaker Magazine. "But I wasn't interested in dealing with dogma."
Ms. James's nativity story is, in Mr. Cuarón's version, set against the image of a prisoner in an orange smock with a black bag on his head, arms stretched out as if on a cross.— Manohla Dargis, [39]
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This divergce from the original was criticised by some, including Anthony Sacramone of First Things, who called the film "an act of vandalism", noting the irony of how Cuarón had removed religion from P.D. James' fable, in which morally sterile nihilism is overcome by Christianity.
The film has be noted for its use of Christian symbolism; for example, British terrorists named "Fishes" protect the rights of refugees.
Kee's pregnancy is revealed to Theo in a barn, alluding to the manger of the Nativity sce; wh Theo asks Kee who the father of the baby is she jokingly states she is a virgin; and wh other characters discover Kee and her baby, they respond with
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