Children Of Men (2006)

Set in 2027, when no child has been born for 18 years and science is at loss to explain the reason, African and East European societies collapse and their dwindling populations migrate to England and other wealthy nations. In a climate of nationalistic violence, a London peace activist turned bureaucrat Theo Faron (Clive Owen), joins forces with his revolutionary ex-wife Julian (Juliana Moore) in order to save mankind by protecting a woman who has mysteriously became pregnant. Hilarity ensues. Sean Connery as...
Trivia: Halfway through this film, when Owen is walking down the ramp on Battersea Power Station, a stenciled image can be seen on a wall of two policemen kissing. This image was created by "Banksy" a British "guerrilla artist" who specializes in this type of work. There are also other works of this artist in the film, one of them is a child looking down a shop, in stencil, as well. Theo is seen wearing a London 2012 Olympics fleece. Michael Caine's character plays an award winning political cartoonist. In his house you can see some of his cartoons in the background, these are drawn by Steve Bell, an award winning political cartoonist for The Guardian newspaper.

This was a pretty bleak future but you don't see many utopian visions of the future, and if you do, they are usually stagnant, but this isn't a utopian vision, it is a distopian one. How come recently all the distopian future movies have happened in England? V For Vendetta, 28 Days Later, Shaun Of The Dead...well, that one was pretty funny, but anyway, what are they trying to tell us? In 2009 the last baby will be born when a planet wide pandemic renders all females sterile. It is pretty sad to see a world without the sounds of children playing. But as a movie it was pretty good.