Essays on Children of Men

There are numerous stories relating to mankind needing to re-clean itself written within Biblical texts. Whether it is because there has been too much sin in the world that it needs a fresh start, or it just seems that the people have lost their faith in God and are straying far away. Stories that are fairly recognizable would be Jesus coming down from Heaven to be crucified and to unburden humanity of its sins and one quite popular story in…...

The movie, Children of Men is set up in a chaotic world in 2027 where the human race has become barren, in the sense that women can no longer give birth. It shows the depths that humanity has fallen after losing all hope of the future since in a matter of years the whole race will become extinct. Theo Faron, the protagonist, signifies the current state of the world; hopeless. He is used to show that regaining hope and faith…...

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…...