20 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Children Of Men

When Theo goes to visit his cousin Nigel at the Battersea Power Station to help secure Kee’s travel documents, an inflatable pig can be seen in the background as the two talk.

This is an overt reference to Pink Floyd’s 1977 album, Animals, which was itself inspired by George Orwell’s Animal Farm, a story with similar political undertones to Children of Men, specifically a focus on a class struggle between the working class/poor and the wealthy.

Its inclusion in this scene is appropriate as Nigel's home is the only luxurious setting seen in the film and the pig's symbolism (greed and decadence) served as a fitting contrast to the absolute collapse surrounding this setting.