Can we imag­ine a world with­out any chil­dren ? In fact, “Veenap­pon­a­van” may stop writ­ing poems, if there are no chil­dren in the world. Sci­ence fic­tion doesn’t always mean to chase some atomic or nuclear bomb. The knot of the story should be com­pelling or attract­ing to get into the film, first. In olden days, you can see the poster and tell a story of an action film in Tamil or Tel­ugu. But see­ing the above quote of the fim, once can’t con­clude any­thing and keeps the inter­est about this film, live.

I’m scared of Sci-fi movies usu­ally, as the story can tra­verse in any direc­tion. Remem­ber, in old Jais­hankar films, RSMan­ohar acts as a vil­lain and with the help of a rub­ber mask, he’ll become any char­ac­ter in the story [ அட‌ப் ப‌த‌ர்ங்க‌ளா..! ]. Sim­i­larly, a science-fiction can show any­thing and put the blame on sci­ence. But this movie attracted me because the direc­tor said the tech­nol­ogy would hit a ceil­ing along with an increased level of pol­lu­tion [ wall-E ! ], pan­demic dis­eases and increased prob­lems. As days pass by, the cities we live def­i­nitely stink more than we expect it to be bet­ter. [ Ban­ga­lore was greener ! ]. That’ a nice way of depict­ing the future as the sci­ence fic­tion usu­ally takes the brighter part alone [ show­ing express­ways and 1 seated cars ].

The story han­dles a sen­si­tive issue — child ! That’s the most mys­te­ri­ous part in life, where mostly we don’t know how to react. A fine moment in life where emo­tions take over the sci­ence — we can’t ignore the child birth just as a sci­en­tific hap­pen­ing. What hap­pens when the human race stops and take a break ?! Watch Chil­dren of men.

Plot

The knot is in the year 2027, women can’t give birth to. The story starts with the youngest kid alive, is shot dead, col­laps­ing the hope of human race. The youngest inhab­i­tant of the planet has just died at the age of 18, and all hope for human­ity has been lost. Theo is a com­mon man who lives alone after get­ting his divorce and loos­ing his daugh­ter to flu pan­demic. He reluc­tantly gets in to a mis­sion of sav­ing and trans­fer­ring a refugee who is the real chal­lenge for this issue of mankind. The refugee has to be handed over to the care of a secret orga­ni­za­tion known as The Human Project.

The story is loosely based on the novel with same name. It’s writ­ten by P.D. James’s grip­ping 1992 novel.

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First about the hero Clive Owen.. acted in Derailed, Inside man; he has played the com­mon man role, swim­mingly. I like him for his looks and famil­iar­ity. He doesn’t pos­sess any super nat­ural pow­ers , mar­tial arts etc., He is a divorcee and has the inten­tion to save a refugee girl from a prob­lem. He takes the respon­si­bil­ity and moves for­ward with­out know­ing what the next step is. The more rel­e­vant thing is that he had a flash­back of his daugh­ter out of some flu pan­demic [ Swine flu is also pan­demic — not endemic or epidemic ].

The truth is the future has more pol­lu­tion, health haz­ards, wars and of course, tech­nol­ogy ! the direc­tor has stud­ied psy­chol­ogy and cin­ema before mak­ing films. He has boldly taken a story which most of the direc­tors wouldn’t try to. His briliance starts in the first scene, itself. The open­ing sequence is as shock­ing as ‘Die hard 2′ — Man­hat­tan sequence.

This is nei­ther a fic­tion nor a thriller. It’s a com­bi­na­tion of fic­tion, future, mankind told in a thriller fash­ion [ like the book title told by Vivek.. cos­mic energy cou­pled with atomic energy in the evo­lu­tion of mankind pro­grammed by java ]. The real­is­tic fic­tion shows a grim and gloomy futur­is­tic world with unknown attacks. In a way, the hap­pen­ing resem­ble the world war peri­ods and the camps.

I need a spe­cial men­tion about the pho­tog­ra­phy — I need this because I was won­der­ing for few shots inside a car dur­ing a chas­ing. The cam­era rotated in 360 degrees show­ing the inci­dent hap­pen­ing behind, inside and through the front side of the car. The DVD got footage of explain­ing how they achieved this. Mar­velous piece of tech­ni­cal work. Also, this film engages lengthy shot sequences taken in one take [ like the open­ing scene in Anjaathey ]. Also the sound effects used in the movie is fantastic.

I haven’t come across a thriller which deals with this kind of pecu­liar require­ment. I stopped in between to take a break as if I was watch­ing some kind of hor­ror movie — U’ll def­i­nitely feel the same when Theo and Kee trav­els in a bus to cross the bor­der. I paused the movie out of anxiety.

Every new scene leasds to a twisted prob­lem which we can’t even imag­ine about. I couldn’t resist remem­ber­ing “Naan Kadavull” by direc­tor Bala. I saw “Chil­dren of men” as an anti­dote for “Kadavull”. When I fin­ished the movie, I thought of rec­om­mend­ing this film and ‘Colour of par­adise’ to direc­tor Bala. The lit­er­a­ture and art forms always try show the hope and faith. This is one of the fine movies which shows the same.

Con­clu­sion

One of the nice films, which has fic­tion and faith. It’s reme­bered for its bril­liant direc­tion adn tech­niques. I add Clive Owen’s per­for­mance also as a fac­tor to watch this movie.

:)
–Toto.

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