The Children of Men - Poster Analyze

The date 2027 tells us very clearly that, this movie is a sci-fi film. That feeling gets reinforced by the ice-blue, grey hue. The sub-headings let us that the age of the humans is nearly over and that this is going to be a pre-apocalyptic film. The broken glass and the kind of graffiti letters signify crime, violence and anarchy. Also important are the colors of the letters: red, which stands for anger and violence, and white, which signifies innocence and weakness. So we will have an innocent figure, which gets threatened by something.

The broken glass stands for the broken order and the broken society. We also can’t see through the turbid glass, which signifies the confusion of the people in the film. Nobody really knows what’s going on, except of the man, who’s looking through the hole and sees everything clear.

The slightly low angle underlines the man’s power and knowledge. He is our hero, hope and he is the guy, who defends the white innocence against the red anger. But his look isn’t the look Bruce Willis has on a poster of Die Hard 5. He has an intensive, worried, suffering and little bit sad look. He doesn’t want to be the hero, but he has to, because he is the only one, who can save the human race. - “He is not the hero we want, but he is the hero we need.” –

The red sign of the eye with the embryo in the centre tells use three things. First: There is a pregnant woman with a unborn baby, which is our innocent thing. Second: The unborn baby stays in the focus and attention of the red anger. And third: The blood drop means that this Embryo as well as its mother is in threat (are bleeding).

So in conclusion:

We have a futuristic, pre apocalyptic and anarchistic scenario. There is our innocent and weak piece of hope, the unborn baby, and his unintentional protector and our hero, chased and threatened by something raging and violent.

A Sci-Fi thriller with dramatic elements.