In particular the early part, where capitalism of course has to continue but the UK's government uses the crisis as an opportunity to do more fascism. I highly recommend you all pirate Children of Men and give it another watch. I got very different vibes watching it now then I did when it came out.
Some things that stood out to me:
The living conditions of the refugees were way too nice compared to reality's USA, so the conditions of dystopian England would be a lot worse in reality.
England would not be the sole government that survives a major pandemic.
Pretending that England isn't the only country that exists in this world, society would look like this if the pandemic was even slightly more deadly. The movie was way too optimistic on how we'd handle a pandemic, we know now that if people actually went infertile the western world would go full on accelerationist death cult. Not murdering people would make you a total wuss.
The movie takes place seven years from now, and everything looks like a shittier version of right now except that there's still newspaper stands. Even though the newspaper stand exists solely to provide exposition it's a little weird that print media is still going. Maybe it is accurate and Rupert Murdoch is a key player in the post apocalypse hellworld. Idk it just stood out.
Weird that Charlie Hunnam is in this
I’ve found this movie borderline prophetic. Watched it around the time it came out and since then it’s stunning how actual governments are militarizing/developing into fortified fascist domains in the face of calamities (climate crisis, refugee crisis) instead of solving said calamities, and how it virtually mirrors the events of the movie. The news segment of a 2nd American Civil War that appears on the TV in one scene is an image I’ve been thinking back on as of late as well, appearing in my mind every time there’s been political related violence or shootings in the US.
Truly an accurate depiction of how modern societies deal with impending disaster.