United Kingdom | Children of Men
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ม.ค. 2022
- An overview and history of what remains of the United Kingdom, 18 years after the last human child was born on Earth.
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The scene with the baby stopping the battle in Bexhill cold was one of the most powerful scenes ever put on film. When I saw that in the theater, there were people sobbing.
For real man. I still get emotional just thinking about it
A lot of people overlook this movie, full stop. It didn't make back it's 80 million dollar budget.
Sounds like bullshit to me or you were in the cinema with manchildren
It's the one scene that is iconic about the movie, and is once of the most memorable scenes in any TV/movie.
The silence and whimpering was haunting in the cinema….
A lot of people overlook how much subtle detail went into the production design and world building for this movie.
Found myself pausing again and again just to look around and read papers/tvs/graffiti in the background.
IKR!?
I didn't. I'm a special boy with special eyes
one of my favorite movies - keep it on one of my VLC playlists, every once in a while i'll look over and get sucked in for an hour.
What is the movie called?
King Charles - "Finally I'm King! I have so many plans for Britain."
Yeah, about that.
I think we'll be skipping a generation to William V
...bruh
@@antonycharnock2993 most definitely not!
He now King
He is the king now and him and his pal K.S. are not only gonna destroy UK but the entire Western civilization
The British are the most believable fictional culture in scifi, IMHO.
Britain already looks, and feels like a dystopian country at times.
Thats just Birmingham
@@harrymorris2361 Don't you mean Liverpool?
Yeah I agree it’s a small enough nation to make it believable
@@PelinalDidNothingWrong I thought it was Grimsby.
On seeing the title my first thought was "Ah yes, the British, the most well known fictional empire"
That one chick on TikTok who claims that Rome was fictitious would love that.
@@LyonTheGreat "You think that writing is English? C'mon it's clearly Norman."
@@gregtompson3432 someone should tell her about the Norman’s she will probably Di Vinci code it to read No-R(o)man. Wait did I just add to her crazy 😂
@@HoneyBee.productions I would refrain from giving that disgrace of a human any fuel for her misplaced view of history and knowledge. She is clearly suffering from something although I sense its a bloated form of narcissm and hate fueled by a agenda we haven't seen yet.
What she is doing is pretty much trying to erase over several thousand years of history that has been recorded, and collected. She's dangerous as if her form of ideology spreads it could result in vandalism and destruction of items she calls as fake by those that believes her. Pretty much to justify her beliefs she needs to destroy it.
@lee mills we are our father's sons.
Every time I watch Children of Men, I always think at some point that the human race in the film is beyond saving, they just haven't realised it yet. Such a powerful film that doesn't get the celebration it deserves often enough. And some of it's theme's and messages are depressingly relevant 16 years after it's release...
"they just haven't realised it yet" oh they very much have, government rationed assisted suicide pills anyone?
I think the whole point is they do realise it
I love how the UK is always the last ones standing:
Napoleon - we're left
Hilter - we're still here
Nuclear apocalypse - guess who
Even if GB is eventually blotted off from the face of the earth at some point, bet there'd still be some securely hidden reference of any of it's identity left across the universe.
A subtle Aeterna Britrix
It's because It's such a shitty place that no one wants to invade it. Attacking Russia during winter is a far more attractive option than visiting Liverpool in July.
@@arx3516 nah Jerome and his mandem will do them Frenchies in if they come up on Yorkshire
Same with of how many time the nation has gone through on doctor who lol
@@arx3516 "It's because It's such a shitty place that no one wants to invade it. Attacking Russia during winter is a far more attractive option than visiting Liverpool in July."
Oh really? Is that why the Celts, Romans, Jutes, Anglos, Saxons, Danes, Norwegians, Swedish, Normans, French, Germans and Spanish tried invading it? Because they all knew Britain was superior
As a British guy, the title and thumbnail really threw me for a fucking loop until I saw 'Children of Men'
I'll always remember this film for having one of the greatest long takes in cinematic history. Really a brilliant, well crafted film.
If I had a dime every time a fictional universe depicts a dystopian world where an authoritarian Great Britain is the only surviving functional society while the rest of the world is thrown into chaos and war, I would have three dimes.
It's not much, but it's weird that it happened thrice
what are the other two times?
@@mckitsune7600 V for vendetta is another one...not sure about the third.
@@mckitsune7600 V for Vendetta and 1984
@@syncout9586 but in 1984 Russia and china survived world war 3 and turn into dystopian countries like Britian in that books
@@isyraf9989 We never really get to now if its actually like that or if its just a lie told by Oceania's government.
Never realised, but U.K. is a very popular setting for dystopias.
It’s because they don’t really have to change anything to get the right look
@Leona Is it really? I don't think that argument would fly with someone from the Philippines, Venezuela, or even countries like Brazil or Turkey. I don't like the current government, sure, but to suggest they are one step away from fascism is quite frankly left wing hysteria.
It's because of their droopy weathers alone is enough to depict such feeling. So less work for the special effect guys.
But honestly what surprised me the most is when I found out that the movie Full Metal Jacket was shot entirely in UK. Especially the Vietnam part. It look so bright and sunny just like in SEAsia.
@@AlexSDU It's almost like a country could have diverse weather
and japan too, both an island nation the opposite side of the eursia continent
Children of Men. Such a spectacular movie. You truly see what humanity can do when faced with its own extinction. Great actors, great plot, great cinematography. I cannot stop recommending this movie to people. Watch it! Also, thank you for making this video Templin Institute!
That really was an awesome movie! My favorite moment from the film was that scene where (I don't recall the characters' names) he escorted the girl and her baby through the firefight and the combatants stopped fighting and watched in awe as they passed through. Fantastic film!
Agreed
Then the rebels took advantage and started firing again.
@@thomasalvarez6456 Firing in the skies in celebration like there's no tomorrow.
Then a UFO crashes and reveals that aliens are behind the mass infertility on humanity all along.
For me it was when the former midwife starts tae tell the story of the falling pregnancies and how hope slowly started tae die.
The protagonist is Theo.
This film was scary and thought provoking in its own special way. Also they left out the part where the last kid on Earth was murdered by a fan.
who??
@@1234airows I forgot the poor kid's name. But it is mentioned on a news broadcast at the start of the movie. The main character is watching it in a coffee shop. I remember he was from a south american country. He was fourteen at the time. Being the last child made him a celebrity by default. But you could tell from the footage he did not want that life. Anyway one day he refused to sign an autograph from a fan. Enraged they stabbed the kid to death. The killer in turn was lynched to death by an angry mob.
@@1234airows it was the youngest known person to be born in the world. he was actually something like 20 or 30, but he was nicknamed baby something
@@stevengreen9536 You are talking about Baby Diego.
@@RoIand Thank you i could not remember his name.
Charles the third hits different now
He is king
Man this looks amazing if only England was real.
It would be really cool if the place I live in was real xD (I get this is a joke I am trying to continue it)
It is a bit unrealistic though how could a country in the modern day still have a monarch so unrealistic
I too, wish I was real.
@@soppa9871 exactly, it's split between the Scots and Welsh, they could never built the Celts.
Who are the bri’ish?
Here’s how I imagine Children of Men’s fertility crisis happened
Combine:
> Show up
> Install Suppression field
> Refuse to elaborate
> Leave
That’s actually a genius military strategy, I mean think about it:
- Sterilise a planet’s smartest and most prominent species
- Wait for them to fall apart
- Go to their planet and publicly announce yourself
- Claim you have a cure for the sterilisation as long as they join you’re empire
- Watch as they all join you in the hopes of becoming fertile again
- Profit
Half-Life References?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?
Children of Men is one of my favourite movies of all time. A real underappreciated gem. The writing, cinematography, production design, and soundtrack are all outstanding. The car-ambush sequence alone is enough to leave anyone's jaw gaping. Love the cheeky end credits song too ;p "C****s are still running the world...."
My favourite kind of dystopia: one of necessity, makes it believable, and a small part of you, despite knowong how wrong it is, understands and even in some small way, agrees with what theyre trying to do.
Legendary film. A babies cry can silence a warzone...
“Okay what’s our biggest problem?”
“There’s not enough people!”
“Okay what’s our second biggest problem?”
“There’s too many people!”
“…”
Who those people are matters. All economic systems require a constant flow of young to support the old, and most of the West, and within the next century most of the world, will face a problem of having a 1:1 ratio or worse of retirees and children to working age people who must support both.
The lore of this movie is a masterpiece and wish we had more about it in either additional movies or a show. Especially on how the rest of the world is surviving.
I have never been able to say exactly why I love this movie, but I do. Thanks for reminding me to re-watch yet again.
I was not expecting this as a topic to come up but I love it
Even in the dystopian Future Britan Managed to Horde all of the worlds art and Treasure. Classic.
By far the most underrated sci fi movie ever, no movie like it
Children of Men is my all tome favorite movie, love seeing it talked about more since it’s criminally underrate
The rusted chains of prison moons
Are shattered by the sun
I walk a road, horizons change
The tournament's begun
The purple piper plays his tune
The choir softly sing
Three lullabies in an ancient tongue
For the court of the crimson king
Hits differently when you have the official portrait of king Charles III bring all crimson and in this movie you have Charles III as king and this song plays as the kings guard ride by. What a coincidence.
Funfact: The old lady in 2:08 speaks german in the original version of the film and says:
"Was passiert hier? I-Ich versteh´ nicht. Meine Familie mit diesem SCHWARZEN."
Translation: "What is happening here? I- I don´t understand. My Family together with this black guy."
This is maybe the strongest line in the movie by far. She looks old enough to have lived during 1933-1945 in Germany. Making her "possibly" a loyal national socialistic member of that ideology. It must be ironic for her, getting treated the same way as the jews (and many others) back then.
(as a german myself I have only watched the movie in german so far, but have watched a video essay regarding this movie (I think it was from Leadhead) and noticed that that lady speaks german, which was odd, because - for me - she always talked german. I don´t know, I personally think that this line is so strong, with a little bit of interpretation, though.)
Of course the German sees something that relates this to Hitler. Go away and shut up until your country is islamised, your self-hatred is pathetic.
@@billbaraka2879 And of course someone who isn’t German tells us to embrace an ideology that almost caused the entire undoing of our country because he was fed propaganda on the internet…
@@billbaraka2879 It is not self-hate it is more like self-reflection of our past.
@@billbaraka2879 stay mad Wehraboo
@@billbaraka2879 mad
One of the most criminally underrated movies ever. I may have been a bit young when I watched this movie, but it still hit like a truck driven by an alcoholic.
My favorite YT channel covering a faction from one of my favorite films? Must be my lucky day
this channel always seems to pick the most random and obscure things to focus on, that I weirdly already had an interest in, its kind of creepy.
the portrayal of the world in Children of Men was one of those really disturbing, non-nuclear apocalypses that stuck with me, so much that for years, I've wanted to take my LEGO hobby and make a half-hearted recreation of Bexhill or something in it
Funny enough robot Chicken made a skit that is a Lego version of this movie
actually some parts of the world in the movies are destroyed by nuclear bombs lol
Honestly, a movie so realistic in its portrayal of a genuine future issue for humanity with the rise of micro plastics I hesitate when I call it science fiction.
One of my favourite films of all time. It’s one of the best thought exercises on British culture and government.
The filming is INCREDIBLE!! Alfonso Cuaron is a GENIUS!!
Seen it a dozen times. Absolutely terrific film.
A true dystopian future
ye is call the Uk
Because its believable.
Under a sense of extreme cynicism this isn't too far off to what Britain would be like during the apocalypse.
Less people - less wars for resources. Any other type of apocalypse maybe. Population decline, no
@@KateeAngel I think the overreaching virus restrictions and human rights abuses show the UK would act exactly like this when faced with population reduction
@@danielmorris7648 Agreed whole heartedly.
@@danielmorris7648 oh found antivaxxer
@@danielmorris7648 it’s definitely highlighted the amount of tinfoil hat nutjobs like you there are out there that’s for sure
would love to see more lore around this movie, it has such a great premise
One of my fave films getting the spotlight. Made my day. Thanks for this :)
I really enjoy this movie and the world it builds up, it's also shockingly beautifully filmed, with many scenes featuring no cuts at all, just a one long take throughout
This was such a good movie. Morbid, depressing, but very good. Alfonso Cuarón is a true master at doing action sequences using long takes.
An unexpected entry for a great movie. Thank you!
No doubt the most believable dystopian world ever put to film.
I never knew it was based on a P D James book. She's usually known for crime fiction as the BBC/ITV made a crime dramas based on her detective Adam Dalgliesh. It definitely needs a TV series making.
The book is absolute garbage, probably the only time that the movie is far superior to the
Book.
@@conor987 I'd have to agree with you on that. Her books are a bit staid from my experience.
James was a brilliant writer.
One of my favorites to watch. But I see it as kind of terrifying that we have seemingly been delaying the inevitable.
The United Kingdom is my favorite fictional country. British people have some cool lore
I absolutely love cinema. And this is in my top three favorite movies of all time. Excellent work
I wish there was some side vids or a comic series about the world itself; USA rest of Europe, Asia, etc
Link?
The book and movie are both amazing pieces of work. You can really imagine the world going to hell like this.
Children of Men is one of my top favorite movies. Very cool to see you cover this movie world.
This was so good children of men is such a good movie and so real. The music is so sad and depressing.
Would love to see a Dossier for Megatron from the 2005 IDW Comic Continuity. Trust me, it's a wild tearjerking ride.
One of my absolute favorite movies. Great to see it covered.
I will always love this film. Well written, great story telling
This movie was the classic ! Albeit humanity would or should have easily solved their reproduction problem with artificial egg and sperm cells creation or with mass cloning albeit the movie was truly depressing we see the humanity came into terms with their demise
@@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat Agreed just in case as a emergency procedure
@@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat I agree! Kinda like The Codon Stream and how it acts as a genetic back-up for the galaxy.
@@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat Sperm and eggs only last so long, they would have to be constantly replaced.
@@PelinalDidNothingWrong I get the Ben 10 reference
@@thomasalvarez6456 how long though?
if they could last say 10 years in storage then a small gene bank of say 50000 to 60000 eggs and fertilizer cells could be restored once a decade with relative ease and around 50000 thousand is the required amount of humans required to have a stable genepool to rebuild the human species in event of mass extinction.
single countries could do this though massive ally groups like the EU and NATO could refill it even faster or even make it far larger then just that many samples.
Finally! About time someone talks about this movie
That movie was terrifyingly realistic in how people would act. Especially how it showed that the “revolutionaries” were as bad or worse as the “oppressors”
very very stupid take
@@colin591 If you're so smart then tell us why
Skynet is the only "true hero"
That’s literally not expressed in the movie at all
@@pinkpanther2586 James solberg made the claim it is on him to back it up
Now this was very unexpected.
I’d like to see an overview of the UK of Threads.
Absolutely
Queen Elizabeth has entered the chat
I love your channel keep up the great stuff
Beautiful. The fact anyone who made it out of Boxhill may never no if Dylan survived is truly haunting that being said.
I was not expecting this one... Pleasantly surprised!
One of my favorite movies, and the best dystopian sci-fi movie ever. I've watched it five times, and yet, I feel there's so much I've missed.
I never thought anyone would come back to this movie it was great
I wish they covered the old republic from star wars. Kreia was the best character from the franchise.
Absolutely agreed. I will never consider the Revan novel or SWTOR part of that canon because of how badly they screw it up.
Just discovered your channel. I really enjoy these plot dives.
Oh man I love this movie. Glad to see it get a spot here
i'm glad that the The Templin Institute has made a video about my favourite fictional faction
One of my all time favourite movies right here
As someone from Bexhill it's super weird to see (a made up version) of it in a film, considering its just a small town next to a larger more famous town
Amazing film.
Crazy how predictive of the future elements of this film were
Crime rising because of mass migration giving the government an excuse to turn tyrannical against their own people?
Yeah, aged like fine wine
@@lollllolll. you’re exactly the sort of person that is manipulated by govt propaganda encouraging anti immigrant and racist sentiment to distract from corruption.
Congrats on missing the whole point of the film
@@Discotekh_Dynasty "Corrupt governments should be trusted with migration policies, they'd never try THAT type of corruption!"
I really hope your post was sarcastic.
@@lollllolll. no, governments should be overthrown and replaced with a peoples republic with freedom of movement and residence for all
The Bexhill tracking shot, is the greatest in cinematic history.
wow to see that movie here... respect!
I really like this movie; a prime example of fine world building with plenty of subtle and sophisticated touches. It is very frightening, seeing the way things turned in the last couple of years, though.
One of my favourite films ever thankyou
Even at the end of the world, the British Museum is gonna British Musueum.
Protect priceless artefacts from around the world where they not valued or cared for by locals?
Lol 😂yeah it kinda funny how for example The Rosetta stone wasnt even care for by the egyptian until the French deciphered it and now they want it lol@pilotwhaleproductions5880
That one shot run through the battle will always dwarf the one shot from Good Fellas
Truly one of the best sci-fi films of recentish years. It seems to be more relevent than ever.
As an island nation, I imagine the UK might be able to seal itself off and kind of survive longer than most counties. At least for a time. But the lack of food and resources available would force us to look elsewhere. If global trade has collapsed and the military is too busy with domestic issues to invade other nations, then how would we procure the vital resources we’d need? We would probably starve to death. Leading to mass revolts, civil war and all that lovely stuff.
Japan (also as an island nation) may do a better job. But in all honesty, I don’t think any nations would last more than a few decades at most after the likes of the US, Russia and China collapse.
I don't know, I think this is pretty dependent on how large our population is at the time of isolation. If we are already look at say a halved population then we might be able to throw together enough farm land. British soil isn't amazing, but if we are willing to get disgusting, and can maintain a fishing fleet, then maybe we can get by on rationing. If we conscript everyone who isn't doing something else vital. We have more potential farm land than we realise. Biggest problem I can see is fertiliser.
Overall though, we're still buggered if we can't figure out some sufficently royal dedicated cloning method.
My country, New Zealand would survive the longest. We only have 5 million people, so we could hold off I the event of an apocalypse for a long time. Same with Ireland.
@@samuellennon1984 New Zealand yes, Ireland... has a potentially very hungry neighbour with a much large population and military. I mean, I'm not saying we would, but the temptation is there.
If we used most available land
As most of the uk is perfect farm land we would be fine once a stable national crop cycle is established
Look up the study by Sustainability journal titled "nodes of continuing complexity." Basically, researchers put together a list of countries most likely to survive a global collapse. The UK, Ireland, NZ and Iceland, and a few others were there. The researchers basically expected that the UK would invade Ireland and use it as a breadbasket for the British mainland in a global collapse scenario.
Brilliant movie. So underrated.
Fckn amazing! Well done guys and girls!!!!
I’ve always wondered what happened to Australia and New Zealand in this universe. It seems they’d be better faired to weather a situation like the one depicted in the film.
Never heard of this, will have to look into it
thanks for the movie recommendation!
The ending of that movie pissed me off!
The cries of the baby should have resulted in a full cease-fire were both parties escorted the child to saftey before rolling credits
Hands down one of the single most underrated movies ever made
Need to watch this film again, it's been a while
great vid
Thank you the English subtitle.
Never knew this film existed, now I know a Citroen CX Safari appears, I need to see it...
"Last one to die, please turn out the light."
One of my favourite films. The world is a character
Watching this video made me rent the movie.
The movie is both sad and interesting.
Intriguing.
I really need to rewatch this movie. Have a feeling I missed alot in it, was a long time ago too
Has anyone noticed how some of the most iconic distopian/apocalyptic movies take place in the uk. 28 days later, shaun of the dead, V for vendetta and arguably 1984. etc.
Obviously a lot of the best movies take place in the USA but it really seems that the uk just works better as a dystopia.
(Perhaps it's because I'm from England so it hits harder than movies that take place in America.)
Well, it's obviously because the English have far more *experience* with living in an authoritarian hellhole of a nation
@@MemeMarine what's that comment about? Lockdown restrictions? Oliver Cromwell's puritan rule or are you "anti establishment"?
The thing I'm really curious about is if the UK is the last remaining stable government and the infertility crisis is coming to a close, would there be a new era of imperial expeditions? for the sake of "restoring civilization?"
They would first get US back on its feat, they probably still dwarf UK population size plus have the military equipment etc. Then restore NATO members quickly as possible.
well the human project has the baby at the end of the movie - and they're allegedly the best scientists in the world.
it ends on a high note, sure Theo died but humanity survived because of their sacrifices.
I think its heavily implied that if the baby stayed there, it would only lead to humanities destruction.
(as everyone was willing to kill each other over control of the baby)
and honestly I love how symbolic it is that Julian and Theo had to be like the mother and father doing whats right for humanity and sacrifice it all to preserve the future - especially with their history together and losing their baby dylan, and Kee even names the first baby born since the apocalypse after him - it hits you in the heart in such a heavy way.
Technically they did go conquer Jamaica. Ads in the movie about fruits from Jamaica has the Union Jack on the corner of the Jamaican flag
Didn't knew I wanted to see this untill I saw the notification