Children Of Man

During todays media studies class, were watching another opening of a film called “Children of man”. This film was made during 2006. 

When the movie starts we don’t get a visual. Instead we see a blank screen. However we do hear a news report.  As soon as we I heard the news report, I understand the purpose of the blank visual. The news report was to report a homicide and it was a way to show some respect of some sort. Where that is usually done by silence, we needed to know hear the report so a blank screen was the best way to do it.  This kind of thing would not have been done should it have been someone else, however the death was of the youngest person. This automatically gave me a sense of what the movie was about; the reason why the title is called “children of man”: humanity is becoming extinct. Therefore everyone is extremely upset that the youngest child has been killed.

Main characters of all movies stand out in one way or another. This is how I guessed the main character was. The scene where we hear the news report is at a coffee shop. People are gathered around the TV with sad expressions. This is when a man- whom I guess the main character is- comes in and buys a copy. He only glances at the TV, differentiating himself from everyone else. My other reason as to why I guess he is the main character is because of the fact that the camera follows him. My guess is that the director intended for us to find out that he Is the main character by this action.

The main character has said one or two words, which where to order his coffee, however we found out a great deal about him from when he leaves the coffee shop. When he exits he walks a bit and stop as he finds something to put his coffee on. He takes out a bottle of -what we assume is alcohol- and puts a bit in his coffee. This and his postures and his costume tell us that he is a very unhappy person. His costume is very dull, no bright colours. His posture un professional despite his profession which is yet to be told, however we know that it is a well paid job. These are all the things we could tell about his character without any words about himself.