well, theo doesnt go shooting people or fight against sinister forces in this film.

what i love about his movie is that it takes the current issues that exists in the UK and amplifies it nth time. currently we have unspoken tension about the muslim migrants from pakistan/bangladesh as well as middle east in the UK. it's even projected that by 2020, muslims will become a majority in britain.

so in this film, they took the issue and give it an evil twist: the rest of the world are torn by war, refugees flooded the UK. the UK gvment had to put their foot down and legally declare the refugees/immigrants as enemy of the state. militaries were actually shown to hunt the fugees down like dogs.

in order to cope with the growing numbers, the british gvment issued that every citizen carry passports (like our NRIC), and non-citizens without them will be deported to south britain (where the main influx of fugees came from france).

in this film, there are 3 major factions: the government, the refugees and the rebels. all fighting for their own cause. the gvment fights to keep order and preserve its citizens; the refugees trying to flee from their war-torn countries; and the refugees fighting for equal rights (with an agenda of their own).

and the story is about how theo, the main character, tries to keep his sanity while trying to save a life of a woman who bears the first baby that will ever be born in the world since 17 years ago.

AWESOME film.