After the first five minutes of this iconic film, I realized that I was in for a treat. Alfonso Cuaron’s visual storytelling techniques are among the best around. He skillfully puts the camera so that we’ll understand exactly what’s happening, but it’s not the typical spoon-fed garbage that is so common in film.

Clive Owen as Theodore Faron was deeply human, but heroic character that really gave us a birds-eye view of what was happening in 2027 London. With the addition of Michael Caine and the brilliant Julianne Moore, Children of Men took us to the heart of passion and humor that makes us human.

By the time we’re introduced to Luke (Serenity’s Chiwetel Ejiofor), the plot is thrown through more twists and turns than a bowl of incredibly rich pasta.

The story opens with the death of the youngest human alive, an 18-year-old guy named “Baby Diego.” Humanity has become sterile. Later, Faron (Owen) encounters a young black woman who is pregnant, the first pregnancy in 20 years.

The race is on to bring her to safety from those who will either exploit her and her baby for violence or kill her to protect their way of life. One of the most incredible scenes is when scores of revolutionaries and British soldiers are all rendered silent by something they hadn’t heard in more than two decades: a crying baby.

It’s what movies are about; nay. It’s what life is about.