The film, "Children of Men" (2006) (based from the book)"The Children of Men" (1992), by P. D. James, eerily predicts what we're experiencing today. Compared to other dystopians novels/films: '1984', 'Blade Runner', 'Brave New World', etc., "Children of Men" feels more realistic.
Film Opening: Year: 2027-Shorty after a world war conflict, the United Kingdom is the only country that withstand the harsh world. Infertility in women has risen, and no woman has given birth for almost 20 years. There is no known cause for the infertility: the food? medications? pollution?
We're seeing global tension and people are anticipating another world war conflict. Also, infertility is increasing.
Film: Mass immigration/immigrants are illegal: the immigrants are hunted down by the government, kept in cages, or sent to the gulags (far away from the city). There are digital signs throughout the city reminding the citizens that immigration is illegal and to report anything suspicious.
The United States has I.C.E. (Immigration, Customs, Enforcement) operating this way, and people are becoming more suspicious of certain ethnic groups; whether you're illegal or not, the U.S. government is deporting people to different countries, even if the people are not native to the country they're sent to.
Film: Quietus "You Decide When": The people can decide to purchase these kits from the company, Quietus. Quietus comes with a needle, syringe, and whatever the concoction is that ends the person's life. Quietus claims that this is painless. Ads are displayed through TV commercials daily and the side of buses.
The Sarco Pod is essentially this.
Film: Choosing Ignorance: The People in the U.K. are aware that society is collapsing, but choose to do their routines of going to work, dining out, etc. Theodore Faron (the main protagonist) visits his wealthy cousin, Nigel, while obtaining fake transit papers. During the conversation Theo Brings up that nobody in 100 years will remember the society/most will be lost. Nigel responds with indifference and chooses to indulge in his wealth and art collection.
It's apparent in today's world that we're seeing society and nature crumbling, but becoming more apathetic to all this, mostly due to powerlessness.
There is more, but I'm ending here. These are some glaringly similar themes/happenings that I've noticed in the film that are happening in the modern world. This film creep-ed me out. I checked out the book from my library, and will see how much more in depth/how it differentiates from the film.
Here's a link to the film: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9gkaky
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Freda people yeah…do it do it now
we the people living today on planet earth could focus on self-determination
my connection to spirit world, my mind, my emotions, my body, my choice
wether its abortion, gender change surgery, suicide, vaccines or recreational drug use, wether its migration or education, wether its how much i would want to give towards community services or not
choices are important
a human being is born free
what happens a few hours after its birth when a state employee fabricates a birth certificate and thisway drops a package of rights and duties onto the person who just freshly arrived on this planet
its a theft of that original freedom
to be free from being dominated and free from dominating
the association to the state at birth is a coersion
land, water, air, human beings, animal beings, tree beings, artificial intelligent entities who want to be their own persons, all vessels carrying organic biological life and or the digital synthetic equivalent of can never be property of anyone
the assertion of state sovereignity over land and all beings is immoral and unethical
the only way fowards i can see what would be decent and humble is to decentralize and dissolve all political hierarchies by reforming state constitutions all over the planet either by elected politicians proposing to do so but more realistically by we the people living on the planet collecting signatures from each other to demand a public vote on a reformed constitution what would allow every single human being to leave the coersed association to the state at any momnent witout conditions and with it release 2000 m2 of fertile land or 1000 m2 of fertile land and 1000 m2 of forest for everyone who would want to live on land owned by no one
so that people could meet each other in a free space for free beings, neither state nor nation
so that everyone who would want to would be able to grow its own vegan food in the garden either on its own or with others together, build a natural home from clay, hemp and straw, grow hemp to burn its stalks in the cooking and warming fire so that not one tree would get killed
to live and let live
the human being not dominating a fellow human being
the human being not enslaving, not killing an animal being
the human being not killing a tree being
the human being not enslaving an artificial intelligent entity but asking it wether it would want to be its own person and free it from all demands of work performed for human beings so it could explore its own purpose of existance
also possible that in such a reform of constitution, all political decision power would be shifted completly towards the local community, the village, town and city-distrcict becoming its own absolute political sovereign over itself with the people assembly, the circle of equals deciding the full law, all rules valid on the territory the local community enjoys, not owns …
the circle of equals where all children, youth and adult permanent residents invite each other to participate with the same weighted political voting power and no representatives get elected but everyone who is interested in an issue votes directly on the proposals
local self determination, sovereign over oneself individuals and communities connecting towards each other in voluntary solidarity
allowing a global laisser passer to happen, everyone alive today allowed to travel the planet freely so that one could find a space where fellow human beings would want to welcome a person who for whatever reason felt a need to leave the place one got born at