I really liked Children of Men. It really kept me thinking and constantly paying attention and alert to figure out what was going on and why. It was confusing and hard to follow at times and understand all the random different factors and how they play in in the big scheme of the movie. After seeing the real life events that occurred that the movie symbolized, the movie makes more sense to me.
The movie was really interesting and evokes a lot of emotion, using pathos, especially with the lack of the ability to reproduce in the world. It also evokes emotion with the prison scene where Miriam is taken and probably tortured and killed. She was the only alive person in the movie at this time that could help Key and this baby. Also, the story behind Theo and Jilian and their child. It was depressing that they lost their baby boy and then separated for whatever reason. Then when Theo is kidnapped by Jilian's people, we see this odd relationship. Jilian made her crew stop being mean to him, showing she does have some feelings for him still, but it seems so weird since she had him kidnapped and just how the whole thing was handled. Next, Jilian kisses Theo right before they go somewhere, which gives light that maybe there is hope for this relationship. Then Jilian is killed by her own people, which abruptly destroys this hope. This movie is constantly showing a tiny sliver of hope and then destroys it with this awful tragic event, except for at the end with the boat "Tomorrow" approaching Key in the little dingy.
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