Children of Men

A bunch of us went to see Children of Men at Camera 12 downtown. I had heard it was good, but I was still blown away by this movie. Clive Owen plays Theo, a government worker, in a dystopian future UK after a plague renders humanity infertile. The UK in this film is an insular, fascist police state that rounds up refugees from the rest of the world into concentration camps. It seems that things really have gone to shit around the world in the coming decades. Theo winds up getting talked into transporting Kee, a young refugee girl, to someplace safe. It turns out that Kee is with child and is pursued by a number of people. The action in the movie is intense and fairly unrelenting. It really gives one a sense of what it is like to be a non-combatant in a combat zone. It is at times a very sad, but ultimately powerful movie. Highly recommended.