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Re:Children of Men: The Future Is a Mirror for the Present by scotty79 on Monday November 09, 2026 @09:05AM (#50425805)
> One particularly brilliant aspect I keep thinking about is how the movie ends. We don’t know what will become of Kee and her baby. [...] We want to think Kee and her baby will change things, but we don’t know for sure because the future is—quite literally, in the final scene—shrouded in fog.

When I first saw this movie, I think the last scene was just her with baby and dead protagonist in a boat, in the fog.

But when I rewatched it more recently, there was also the ship they were trying to reach appearing out of the fog.

Did this movie have two different ending versions? Less ambiguous one for American audiences perhaps? Or did I just misremeber or watched a damaged copy?

Re:Children of Men: The Future Is a Mirror for the Present by hebleb on Monday November 09, 2026 @09:10AM (#50425875)
The movie always ended with a ship appearing and the sound of children's laughter over the credits, it's less ambiguous than people make it out to be
Re:Children of Men: The Future Is a Mirror for the Present by haunter on Monday November 09, 2026 @09:13AM (#50425917)
Mandela effect. The ship was always there, there are no alternate ending versions

https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/iea5it/children_of_...

Re:Children of Men: The Future Is a Mirror for the Present by scotty79 on Monday November 09, 2026 @10:37AM (#50427068)
That's amazing. I think the ending without the ship is just better. So that's why brains of many people, including mine, made it to be that. I reject your reality and substitute my own.

"There was an interview with the cinematographer who had argued for a more open ending with the two of them in the boat and you don't see or hear the rescue ship. So that was under consideration for a while. Maybe you read the director or someone taking about it?"

It's entirely possible that I didn't even come up with the better ending to remember on my own.