Children Of Men: A Critical Dystopian Film

Dystopia film presents the theory that he public would rather see the world come to an end then see capitalism become replaced or changed. These films offer post apocalyptic worlds filed with despair and often death. However these films may be divided into two types of Dystopia film, critical and uncritical (Mirrlees, 2015). The difference between critical and uncritical dystopias is that critical dystopias are critical of capitalism and attacks the existing structure of capitalism, where an uncritical dystopia will create the dystopia to encourage the present state of capitalism (Mirrlees, 2015). Mirrlees states that critical dystopia film “addresses dystopic effects that derive from the capitalist political economy of our time and transcodes them into stories,” and uncritical dystopia film, “transcodes the dystopia effects of contemporary capitalism into near-future stories that stage a world system in shambles, but unlike the critical dystopia film, it obscures catastrophe’s capitalist determinations.” By these definitions and guidelines, Children of Men (2006) is a critical dystopian film.

The film never divulges from his perspective as it intends to show this world from only his perspective, and from Theo’s perspective, the past was not necessarily better then the present. He discusses the possibility of a cure for infertility with his friend Jasper, and Theo says, “Even if they discovered the cure for infertility, doesn't matter! Too late. World went to