10 Films That Creepily Predicted 2016’s Biggest Moments

Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón’s dystopian sci-fi Children of Men depicted Britain in the not too distant future as a military police state with closed borders whose immigrants are hated and kept separate from native citizens in refugee camps. The rest of the world isn’t faring too well either: apart from a few remaining semi-functional governments, most societies have collapsed and humanity as a whole is facing a global infertility crisis.

With a little leap of the imagination, there’s some parallels to be drawn between Cuarón’s vision and Britain’s decision to exit the European Union, or Brexit as the portmanteau-obsessed press have annoyingly termed it.

While nobody, not even default Prime Minister Theresa May it seems, knows what Britain after Brexit will really be like, Children of Men’s prediction of a nation with it borders closed in which immigrants are despised isn’t too far from what some of the more vocal, right-leaning Brexiteers (we’re looking at you, Nigel Farage) envisioned and promoted.

Thankfully though, unlike Children of Men, the world isn’t facing mass human extinction nor has Britain been plunged into chaos, but there’s no doubt that the nation is facing one of its most uncertain futures yet.