Children of Men is futuristic world in which women can no longer give birth. For nearly two decades there had been no new births. Humans on earth face extinction and not just from infertility but environmental reasons as well. In 2027, England has become a militarized police state because of an overwhelming influx of refugees. There is an underground resistance group that is gaining numbers and powers to liberate the refugees from secondary citizenship. Theo (Clive Owen) a former political activist is called upon to help this underground resistance group. His job is to transport a woman who has become pregnant. There is a Human Genome Project that awaits her arrival but the journey is treacherous. The overarching theme of environmental protection is evident throughout the film. The prevailing idea is that women are sterile because of environmental conditions. The world is decaying as the atmosphere is being polluted, ozone layer rapidly depleting and new genetic diseases emerging. This movie calls for political activism against a heavily polluted world. Individual recycling is a start but the multi-national corporations of the world need to be more concerned as they slowly kill the population with their toxic pollutants and global expansion.
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