Refugees, Extinction, and the Regulation of Death in Alfonso Cuarón’s <i>Children of Men</i>

Abstract This article is an attempt to make sense of the paradox structuring narrative extinction in Alfonso Cuarón’s Children Men (2006), which juxtaposes a romanticized image survival and rebirth ugliness senseless death. Departing from biopolitical framework, argues that story represents as beyond redemption yet subject regulation. Given fact structured around citizen/refugee nexus, I read film about eschatological value refugees both cultural conceptualizations human reproduction statist political identities. The thus not only unequal access death but also how difference between citizen refugee can still be maintained face climatic when regulation life no longer sufficient.