Soooo.... Children of Men, eh?
Apr. 6th, 2011 05:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
devonmeyerSo remember that time when we couldn't have babies anymore? I don't. In fact, I think we could use a little bit of that right about now with our whole population crisis and world hunger and whatnot, but that's just me.
Anyway, after watching CoM I got around to thinking: what would the world be like if this infection wasn't taken to the extreme that is present in that movie? What if the infection was selective, and only affected three-fourths of the population or something along those lines? I liked the movie and the basic story, but I always like to test extremes-- I usually fail to walk away from a movie where a nearly unbelievably extreme situation occurs, without questioning the messages that emerge.
And here are my thoughts. One of the atrocious things in the novel is how Key's (spelling?) child is sought after to be a tool for several different causes. Talk of the government taking her child away and covering up the fact that it came from an immigrant mother, as well as the resistance force wanting to effectively use the child to further their own cause, and even going so far as to kill a valuable member of their own to make the whole situation pan out.
But what if, as I said, it wasn't the whole population? What if it was a selective virus that one-fourth of the female population was immune to? I'd imagine the craziness would still be very present-- if three fourths of women suddenly couldn't have anymore babies, I'm sure it would cause quite a stir. But would the world turn so dark and grey as was presented in CoM?
Or would it turn the world even darker? I wonder if, for that one fourth of the population, the government would force pregnancy and essentially legalize the rape of one quarter of the female population, if there was such a population crisis? I wonder if women who refused to get pregnant, if they could, would be terrorized and harassed? I mean, the whole thing about immigration is pretty independent, at least how I saw it, to the infection, and that was what I found to be the darkest part of the movie.
I'm a wonderer. It's how I roll.
Anyway, after watching CoM I got around to thinking: what would the world be like if this infection wasn't taken to the extreme that is present in that movie? What if the infection was selective, and only affected three-fourths of the population or something along those lines? I liked the movie and the basic story, but I always like to test extremes-- I usually fail to walk away from a movie where a nearly unbelievably extreme situation occurs, without questioning the messages that emerge.
And here are my thoughts. One of the atrocious things in the novel is how Key's (spelling?) child is sought after to be a tool for several different causes. Talk of the government taking her child away and covering up the fact that it came from an immigrant mother, as well as the resistance force wanting to effectively use the child to further their own cause, and even going so far as to kill a valuable member of their own to make the whole situation pan out.
But what if, as I said, it wasn't the whole population? What if it was a selective virus that one-fourth of the female population was immune to? I'd imagine the craziness would still be very present-- if three fourths of women suddenly couldn't have anymore babies, I'm sure it would cause quite a stir. But would the world turn so dark and grey as was presented in CoM?
Or would it turn the world even darker? I wonder if, for that one fourth of the population, the government would force pregnancy and essentially legalize the rape of one quarter of the female population, if there was such a population crisis? I wonder if women who refused to get pregnant, if they could, would be terrorized and harassed? I mean, the whole thing about immigration is pretty independent, at least how I saw it, to the infection, and that was what I found to be the darkest part of the movie.
I'm a wonderer. It's how I roll.
