Alfonso Cuarón’s 2006 film ‘Children of Men’ is a text that explores the interplay of past, present and future on both personal and societal levels. Many characters in the film are obsessed with reiterating the past in an endless cycle of...

In filmmaking, directors have subtly ascribed roles of the Self and the Other in discourse. Examining the movies, Children of Men, Babel, and Cronos, one sees the Self as the one who prevails in forming the worldview and conforming the viewers’...

Within Children of Men, the implementation of various stylistic elements from a cinematography standpoint allows Alfonso Cuarón to iterate subtle messages throughout the film. More specifically, the usage of combined camera angles and extended...

One of the issues that society has always been focused on is fertility. Nowadays, this topic is multidimensional and covers such problems as overpopulation in some countries (such as India) and rising infertility rates in others, such as in South...

Look, there we are. The first shot of Alfonso Cuáron’s Children of Men is a shot of an audience getting information about the state of things in the same way that we do, through the media. You may have missed it but Cuáron’s fundamental motif of...

In the film Y Tu Mama Tambien, the characters Tenoch, Julio and Luisa represent Mexican economic classes and social stratification in distinct ways. A Marxist would argue that Tenoch, the more affluent male lead of the trio, represents a bourgeois...