Children Of Men

Inequality (race,gender etc)

In the clip “Children of Men” we see the problems that we could be faced with in the future and the impact that it could have on our society and maybe could lead us to our civilization being in “crisis” as seen in the short clip. How are we going to deal with overpopulation? In the movie clip they limited the population to a certain number, once that number was reached there were “NO BABIES” that could be born. But what happens if a woman gets pregnant? We seen this in the clip, the black lady was pregnant and everybody looked scared, they were all wondering what they were going to do? Will they kill the lady? Will they abort the baby? If the baby is born, would somebody have to die? How would they chose who would die? This is similar to Hammurabi’s Code and his theory of “an eye for an eye.” You also saw people who were upset at the woman who was having the baby; this led to destruction of the city, and people rioting against each other. My reaction to this clip is that everybody should have an equal chance at living. There shouldn’t be restrictions and limitations on people’s lives. That is morally wrong and should never happen. If society becomes overpopulated, then let it be. People will have to find new ways to survive. Maybe live underwater and build an underwater city? Who knows but killing people and putting a certain restriction on the amount of people that can live is ridiculous and it should never happen.

The overall purpose of this text is to show you the problems that we could be faced with in the future. The overpopulation aspect is a big deal and they are trying to emphasize that to you through pictures of signs saying “NO BABIES” and signs that say “Our Civilization is in Crisis.” This is meant to put fear in the people, so people will think twice about the things that they are doing on an everyday basis. It also shows the affect that a person could have on society. If one person is upset about something in the society, for example if one person is upset that the women is having a baby and the fact that she got pregnant when she wasn’t supposed to do, this could cause for disaster in a society that is already very unstable. We saw this in the movie clip. The people were in the car with the women who was having a baby and people were throwing things at the car and causing destruction, just because they were upset at the black women. This shows how messed up the society could be in the future and how just one person could have a big impact on what people do.

In this clip the meaning of being “human” is very different than what the meaning actually means today. Today being a human means you have equal rights, can do whatever you want, being able to fully function and do the things that you please on an everyday basis. But in the movie clip “Children of Men” the meaning of human is very different than today. In the movie clip the “humans” are almost like robots. Everybody is the same in that society, no woman can have a baby, and the people look like zombies because they are so scared and petrified because of the destruction in their society. These people are just doing the same thing every day and they are just going through the motions, rather than trying to change things and get their society out of a “crisis” as stated in the movie. This is why the people remind me of robots, it is almost like they serve no purpose in their society, they are emotionally drained and they are in a constant struggle against their people.

Our depiction of the future and the fact that the world could become overpopulated is very realistic and could very much happen. But we need to find ways and take steps now to prevent overpopulation so it doesn’t happen. If we cannot prevent it then we need to find ways at least to control the average number of babies coming into the world every year. Maybe we limit each family to only having one or two children? Would this be right? Right now as a population we need to find a way of limiting the birth of children or else as seen in the movie clip, women will be able to have “NO BABIES” and our civilization will be in “crisis.” In the movie clip “Children of Men,” we use language and images to manipulate peoples mind by using capital letters and certain colors to make them stand out. This places an emphasis on certain words and shows the effect of what could happen in the future.