"I don't buy it. This is a futuristic world and no one could figure out why?"
As yet, we don't even know the underlying cause of irritable bowel syndrome.
For what it's worth, my own personal belief is that it was some kind of pathogen created by a rogue scientist. In the film there was mention of a flu pandemic. Maybe it was this mysterious flu pandemic (created by a rogue scientist?) that had the effect of sterilising the human population. It would explain why the animals aren't sterile as well.
Really? We can barely cure any woman's infertility and actually we can't. We just developed methods to work around it. Now I'm going to assume even invitro didn't work.
how do you know no one could figure it out? maybe the governments did but didnt tell anyone? But like i said since this is primarily Theo's story its completely irrelevant.
Those details just really are not important. The film is not about solving the mystery of infertility. It's about the people themselves. Infertility is just the stage is it set on
It being a mystery was kind of the point, though. It's not so much a movie about the mystery of infertility, but rather how humans deal with it. It is supposed to be unanswerable for characters and audience alike.
Wow, this thread stupidity reigns "how do you know no one could figure it out? maybe the governments did but didnt tell anyone?" Right, or maybe a giant pigeon from Jupiter came down and spit on all the women of the world and rendered their bodies infertile, c'mon man, the story has to have at least a thread of credibility.
"It's just a film" yeah, and a very poor one at that.
"Right, or maybe a giant pigeon from Jupiter came down and spit on all the women of the world and rendered their bodies infertile,"
But then you need to explain how the Jovian pigeon would have flown to Earth through the airless vacuum of space.
I think the explanation with the pathogen has plausibility. What does it matter that I had to make up the explanation myself? Not every film maker feels an obligation to spoon-feed the audience.