Alfonso Cuarón’s Children Of Men is a deeply layered tale of a world gone mad that’s not too far from the current state of things. Just one little push—in this case the infertility of the race, unable to produce any new offsprings—is enough to exaggerate the inherent xenophobia and class systems that are already in place throughout the “civilized” world. But one way that Cuarón conveyed so much of his information was by displaying it in the background and by echoing other pieces of art to subconsciously communicate how this future isn’t so divorced from the past or even the present.