Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men (2006) introduces the unpredictability of an apocalyptic world. The class system and power distribution present throughout the film consistently illustrate the population’s desperate desire for life. Cuarón explores this dynamic by derailing from the main storyline to focus on details in the background. Manipulating the camera play brings to light the state of the world and the hegemony of society by displaying in the background what the main characters fail to observe. Despite minor futuristic advances in technology, the world presented in the film reflects the current state of the world today. When Cuarón steps away from the foreground, establishing a forceful awareness of the background, the classes in
