The formal similarities of these two films accentuate a stark contrast in how each represents a world shaped by the Anglo-American neoconservative movement. However, I did not fully grasp Children’s political significance until I viewed another dystopian science fiction film released the following year, Francis Lawrence’s I Am Legend. Like many of the critics who praised Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men for being one of the best films of 2006, I found the film a topical post-apocalyptic treatise on a variety of contemporary political problems, from the “War on Terror” to environmental degradation.
" Our culture of calamity has critical implications for the emergence of the disaster-security state and the consolidation of corporate power in the age of globalization." - Kevin Rozario
In Legend, even the wildlife affirms the necessary social glue of “family values.” Theo eavesdrops while Jasper explains the dialectical relationship between faith and chance. Theo gives his life to row Kee out to meet this ghostly ship. The Human Project arrives on their vessel, the Tomorrow. When Neville “listens,” he becomes a suicide bomber.Ĭracks in the glass form the image of a butterfly.Ĭhildren: Theo looks puzzled when Kee claims to be a virgin. Legend’s focus on blood recalls Christological and nationalistic themes. Legend eroticizes Neville in the tradition of some depictions of Christ on the cross.Īnna hands the vaccinated blood to someone at the survivor’s colony. Where Anna refers to the test subject as “she,” Neville says “it.”Įvidence of Neville’s reckless treatment of the dark seekers lines the walls of his lab, as Anna discovers. Legend's New York City permanently decorated for Christmas.Ī crucifix swings from the rearview mirror of Anna’s SUV. Before she reveals her pregnancy to Theo, she empathizes with the plight of livestock. Kee, the first pregnant woman in eighteen years, is a Third World refugee. Neville’s blackness can be viewed from the skewed perspective of white Christian Americans as extra justification for violence against “other others” (like Arabs).Ĭhildren argues that hope for the future lies with the wretched of the earth. Army ribbons, Neville evacuates his family from Manhattan in an early flashback scene. "Children of Men" and "I Am Legend" by Kirk Boyle JUMP CUTĬhildren begins with a terrorist bombing.Ī military-operated checkpoint in Legend where the "healthy" are separated from the "infected."Ĭhildren: Theo enters his job at the Ministry of Energy through a metal detector.īackground graffiti reads, “The Human Project Lives.”
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