Children of Men

Last night Zoe and I went to the cinema; I wanted to watch An Inconvenient Truth, Zoe wanted to watch The Devil Wears Prada, we ended up watching Children of Men.

We'd both heard good things about the film, but walked out well impressed. It looked incredible, the plot was full of twists and the direction and acting was immense.
For me it also raised lots of issues. In particular a real awareness that I have adopted that modernist philosophy of progress and that such a philosophy is naive to the extreme.  Stats on terrorism, crime, health, climate change and poverty seem to suggest things are not improving, they're getting worse and therefore unless there is some dramatic change my kids and in particular their kids are going to have a pretty rough time.
I haven't read PD James' book, but the film also raised issues about the division between those that will suffer and those that will prosper. In the film borders were closed as the world collapsed and non-British citizens were held prisoner in Guantanamo like conditions.  The way it was shot however seemed to suggest that those who will suffer most in the future are eastern Europeans and Muslims. Maybe I'm reading too much into this but I can't help thinking that such a suggestion might just be correct!