Children of Men

In class we watched the intro to 'Children of Men' (2006) a thriller film by Alfonso Cuar on. The film is set in 2027 in the United Kingdom.

The intro creates a lot of mystery, the it starts with people standing in a cafe with the people acting as if they are completely horrified and cannot turn away from the TV. They are watching the news. The news tell the audience that the world's youngest person has died. He was 18 years old. This makes the audience wonder how or why the world's youngest person is 18. This creates an enigma.

We then follow the main character outside the cafe, and we watch him, expecting him to do something. Suddenly the cafe that he was in explodes, the fact that this was not expected by the audience, creates shock. Woman walks out in distress, holding her own arm.

This makes us want to carry on watching because we want to find out more about this dystopic future.