The Possibility of Hope (Alfonso Cuarón 2007)
Posted on January 16 at 14.30, 2009 by Eric Mahleb
Alfonso Cuaron’s remarkable Children of Men (based on the novel by P.D. James) is an extremely bleak film about a dystopian and sterile near-future where no children have been born in 18 years. This results in extreme forms of lawlessness, inequality, poverty, violence, and illegal immigration and in an overall breakdown of society as a whole. But these problems are the very same ones that currently plague our society as the world tries to understand how to handle the continued rise of capitalism in light of the increasing economical and social instability that seems to accompany it.
A short documentary on the changes that are impacting our society, The Possibility of Hope provides interviews with some of the leading thinkers on globalization, human migration and social and environmental justice (John Gray, Naomi Klein, James Lovelock, Slavoj Zizek…), intercut with footage from various existing newsreels and documentaries and with footage from Children of Men. While offering an interesting montage of visuals on the themes mentioned earlier, The Possibility of Hope has little new information to present, and does not provide any ground-shattering insights on the costs of globalization. It also feels that it was done very quickly, almost as an after-thought.
Nevertheless, it is good to see a prominent (and talented) director who operates within the Hollywood establishment caring for such issues and trying to do something about it.
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