Alfonso Cuarón in America

Mexican born producer, director and filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón, is a major innovator and inspiration in the realm of film. His films are centered on the ideas of global capitalism. Each film uses sadness and desolation as a stratagem for his movies. His use of melancholy permeates a viewers’ reflection of death as represented in these films. It is through this paper where Y Tu Mamá También and Children of Men will be compared and perhaps contrasted.
Y Tu Mamá También investigates the impact of global capitalism on an environment nationwide through the lives of teenagers in Mexico. While Children of Men concludes the current international situation and examines political implications of the inflating global crisis. Each film elaborates on the relationship between personal and national identity and upon closer examination, the two films share a number of notable thematic matters.
In the film Children of Men, we learn that the global infertility may be the repercussion of pollution or disease or perhaps the wrath of a higher entity on humanity. Women can no longer bare children. The last time the world saw a baby being born was over a decade before this wave of infertility. It is through the movie where we are shown how bleak and dismal Britain is, with immigrants being locked up and mistreated. Theo, the protagonist and a political activist, lives in the United Kingdom. Throughout the movie Theo is in charge of smuggling Kee, a young refugee woman, to a ship run by the Human Project, which is a group of scientists who are trying to cure the wave of infertility. Kee is responsible for giving birth to the first child the world has seen in almost two decades. Children of Men is the adaptation of a P.D. James novel, which analyzes the politics of fertility in a dystopic destiny world where the human population is endangered by its lack of