{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Children of Men: Cuaron's Refugee Fortress Britain","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6a28001ca917ce4c7065c483/c254c938-0802-4250-9324-03633af433db.jpg?height=200","description":"Alfonso Cuarón's Children of Men (2006), based on P.D. James's 1992 novel, imagines a near-future Britain that has become a police state in response to global human infertility. The film's architecture is the architecture of the refugee crisis: the Bexhill detention camp, the cage trucks carrying immigrants through London streets, the military checkpoints, the bombed-out buildings. Cuarón is a Mexican director who brought a Global South perspective to a story set in Britain — his long takes and hand-held camera make the violence viscerally immediate. The film arrived in 2006, before the Syrian refugee crisis, before the Calais Jungle, before 'Stop the Boats' — but it describes all of them with uncanny precision. This episode examines the film's prophetic politics, the contrast between James's conservative novel and Cuarón's humanist film, and what it means that its refugee imagery has become documentary reality.","author_name":"Atween Studios"}