Children Of Men Review: Road To Hell Film Reviews Podcast Episode 008

In today's episode, Nicky P and Danny review Children Of Men and discuss the origin of Eugenics as well as collapse economics.

What's To Review In Children Of Men?

Global civilization has fallen. Britain alone hangs on by a thread. Migrants and refugees are flooding into a nation that can’t sustain them. The government, struggling to maintain order, exerts whatever power it has with as much force as it can as the bombs of desperate terrorists explode in the streets and as more and more people succumb to misery. This vision of England in the year 2027 is bleak indeed, for no baby has been born on Earth for eighteen long years. Suddenly, without explanation, people just stopped being able to reproduce. There are no more children. There is just a world of adults—sullen, hopeless adults—with no future to fight for and no reason to live.

Theo Faron, a jaded former activist turned low-level government bureaucrat, is introduced by his estranged wife to Kee, a poor refugee seeking passage through England. Theo’s wife is killed in an ambush, leaving Kee in his reluctant hands. Kee reveals to the cynical Theo that she is pregnant; she is the first person to be pregnant in nearly two decades. Discovering that his wife’s ambitious comrades were responsible for her death and that they planned to use Kee’s baby as a political tool, Theo and Kee flee their wicked designs and set out to get Kee to the mysterious Human Project, a much-fabled band of scientists working to cure humanity’s infertility. 

Fear And Self-Loathing In A Children Of Men Review

In this episode of The Road to Hell, Nicky and Danny explore the dismal subject of human infertility and how, as Children of Men aptly displays, a world without children is not worth living in. Nonetheless, there are those in power here in the real world who would like to limit human reproduction, supposedly in order to “save the planet.” However, the control of human breeding has always been a key element in political Utopianism throughout history. For an introduction to eugenics in the United States and much more, tune into this episode of The Road to Hell film review podcast!

Today's episode was certainly a doozy. We covered the failing modern economic model when applied to the natural plateauing of human population growth. We also covered the origins of the Eugenics movement as well as it's connections to the current antihuman population movement. It sounds impossible not to be more informed than you were beforehand.

Director
Alfonso Cuarón

Writers
Alfonso Cuarón
Timothy J. Sexton
David Arata
Mark Fergus
Hawk Ostby

Starring
Clive Owen as “Theo Faron”
Clare-Hope Ashitey as “Kee”
Michael Caine as “Jasper Palmer”
Chiwetel Ejiofor as “Luke”
Julianne Moore as “Julian Taylor”

Children Of Men Review Resources & Extra Media
Children of Men (2006): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206634/
War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America’s Campaign to Create a Master Race – Edwin Black: https://edwinblack.com/war-against-the-weak
“The Scientific Racism of Eugenics and Social Darwinism” – Peace Revolution Podcast #64: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/peacerevolution/episodes/2012-10-05T12_01_59-07_00
UNESCO: Its Purpose and its Philosophy – Julian Huxley: https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000068197
Excerpt from pg. 19: “At the moment, it is probable that the indirect effect of civilisation is dysgenic instead of eugenic; and in any case it seems likely that the dead weight of genetic stupidity, physical weakness, mental instability, and disease-proneness, which already exist in the human species, will prove too great a burden for real progress to be achieved. Thus even though it is quite true that any radical eugenic policy will be for many years politically and psychologically impossible, it will be important for Unesco to see that the eugenic problem is examined with the greatest care, and that the public mind is informed of the issues at stake so that much that now is unthinkable may at least become thinkable.”
“Forced Sterilizations are Still Legal in 31 States, New Report Shows” – TruthOut: https://truthout.org/articles/forced-sterilizations-are-still-legal-in-31-states-new-report-shows/
“How & Why Big Oil Conquered the World” – The Corbett Report: https://www.corbettreport.com/bigoil/
“Meet Paul Ehrlich, Pseudoscience Charlatan” – The Corbett Report: https://www.corbettreport.com/ehrlich/

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