Children of Men

The word 'apocalypse' refers to the destruction or the end of the world. It is also a theme which is often explored in science fiction films as it can arouse audience's interest. At the same time, apocalypse is an important idea in the Bible, but the detail of the end of the world is not clearly mentioned, which makes the topic more mysterious, thus, science fiction films like to employ certain biblical elements to explore the idea in order to…...

In the beginning of cinema heroes and heroines tended to stay within the mythic structure of heroes using binary pairs of opposite terms to simplify the complexity of events and reducing the players down to good guys and bad guys or more cinematic, white hats and black hats. That changed radically in the late 1960's and early '70's when a series of films such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Bonnie and Clyde, The Godfather, Midnight Cowboy and One…...