Netflix finds: Children of Men.

I saw the movie Children of Men via Netflix. It isn't what you would call a feel-good movie, but as an S/F fan, and a fan of movies in general, I enjoyed it great deal. For one thing, the protagonist is played by Clive Owen. I simply like Clive Owen, and my regular reader will probably readily discern why. And he's exactly the right fellow to play Theo--the character who has lost a child in the childless future dystopia, and who mourns, and drinks, and yet responsibly tries to protect a Madonna for the New Age, who has the British future dystopic version of La Migra and the Fish--the political activists of shifty concerns, both pouring down her throat--her being Claire Hope Ashitley as Kee, who is earthy and maternal and excellent as the one girl who finds herself pregnant in a world without babies.

The movie is rare in it's ultimate statement regarding the value of just one human life, in the way so many people respond at first, to the death of the youngest man, and then, the respect for a baby--so rarely seen, but also the question raised about what just what one such child might mean politically for such a people.'

It's a deep movie, but very enjoyable.

I recommend it.