ONline Reviews for Children Of Men

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/movie/114077/children.of.men - Film - The Guardian
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/children_of_men/ - rotten tomatoes
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206634/news?year=2006 - Imdb

Phillip French (the guardian website) - 'What the narrative demands, and what Cuaron provides, is moral ambiguity and a teasing hopefulness that suggests the possibility of redemption.' This quote is important to my independent study as it works in backing up the idea that in this day and age humans are looking for some kind of way in which we can redeem our wrongful and reckless care of the earth. However it also supports the idea that the audience is mainly identifying with the film, by seeing the effects within the film they are affected moral which will therefore effect their actions and beliefs.

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times (Rotten tomatoes website) - 'the film serves as a cautionary warning. The only thing we will have to fear in the future, we learn, is the past itself. Our past. Ourselves.' This quote serves as reiterating the idea that apocalyptic films of the future serve as setting a warning to its audiences, this being that the actions that we have now are damaging the environment. So it is ultimately saying that the main perception gained from this film is that the film serves as a means to change or alter these actions in order to create a better environment for the future generation.

Manohla Dargis in the New York Times observes (IMBD website)- that Cuarón's film "is a gratifying sign that big studios are still occasionally in the business of making ambitious, intelligent work that speaks to adults." Once again this backs up the point that however unrealistic the film is it will effect the actions within its audience, in this quote it is suggesting that the level of ambiguity is the reason for the words that are spoken to the audience.