The film I have chosen is Children of Men by Alfonso Cuaron . It was released in 2006. This film tells the story of a dystopian city in the future where women can't get pregnant however a woman named Kee beats all odds and gets pregnant, Theo helps her out as they come across multiple people trying to steal the baby away as they attempt to flee to a human organization. I will analyze the sequence in terms of Historical and Economical context and will use mise-en-scene, Cinematography and filmmakers influence. According to an article in TheVulture by Abraham Josephine Riesman, the director’s intentions were “‘‘We cannot allow one single frame of this film to go without a comment on the state of things.’ I said, ‘Okay. That’s exactly it.’ He was so articulate about what it was, you know? I can communicate about zillions of specifics that sometimes only Chivo can decipher” This quote means that Alfonso intended to make the film comment about the state of things that are in real life which is why the film touched topics about immigration, politics and economics.
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The filmmakers intention for this was to show the effect society is causing towards saudi or afghan muslims, the filmmakers has the immigrants in the film being about 90% of muslims and shows them being murdered with guns left and right by majority of white soldiers in inhumane conditions. The constant murdering’s of muslim immigrants shows the ignorance society is showing them at that time during the war on terror on afghan