Chidren of Men

This is the second time I have seen the movie Children of Men and I have enjoyed watching it both times. In my opinion it is one of the more interesting "end of humanity" movies, all females becoming infertile is a unique idea. Though I wonder if that could ever happen so completely in real life. It is possible to create "test tube babies", so I would think that when women everywhere began miscarrying the government could take action and harvest as many "potential" children as possible. With that and the future advances in cloning I think that the human species could survive, though our gene pool would be seriously depleted. (Anyways...)
I found the society portrayed in the movie to be very interesting. The fact that the United States was in a complete stage of chaos was shocking. Because Britain was the only safe place left, according to them, they basically quarantined their people. Immigrants were rounded up and placed in refugee camps. In my opinion these camps were quite similar to those America placed the Japanese in during World War 2. Both had very harsh living conditions and were set against an innocent people. Finally, I would like to address my favorite scene in the movie in which the group is on their way to the refugee camp (on purpose) and they stop at an elementary school. This visual image of the abandoned school, with all of the childrens' art decorating the walls really made the complete loss of adolescence in the world hit home for me. When the movie is taking place in a city it's easier to overlook the lack of children present. But when you are in a place that is meant to be happy and filled with young life and it's not, you truly grasp how important children are to our society.