People have been fantasising about apocalyptic scenarios for as long as bad things have been happening, and one of the primary ways in which modern man does this is through dystopian fiction. Every so often, though, the better works of that genre blur the line between fiction and reality, and one of “the best to ever do it” must be the 2006 film, Children of Men – especially in light of the UK’s recent ‘assisted dying’ decision.
Based on P.D. James’ 1992 novel, The Children of Men, I will limit myself to discussing the film adaptation on the basis that its take on the story, largely similar, reached a larger audience and as such has, I suspect, become more widely associated with this hopelessly hellish futuristic scenario than the novel.
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