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While there are some interesting points in this article, I didn't take this movie as either anti-corporate or anti-technology. It's more anti-military / anti-i
by ryanwaggoner 17y ago
While there are some interesting points in this article, I didn't take this movie as either anti-corporate or anti-technology.
It's more anti-military / anti-imperialism than anti-corporate. Yes, the bad guys are a corporation, but I get the feeling that they did that to make the film more marketable. Americans probably would have a much harder time cheering for the aliens who are slaughtering US Marines. But very little about plot would have changed had the bad guys been military instead of a private corporation.
As for anti-technology, I think it's more about the dangers of abusing power of any kind, including the power that technology lends us.
- char 17y ago"I didn't take this movie as either anti-corporate or anti-technology." Agreed. I think many people are reading way too much into this plot. Sometimes a story is just a story.
- kingkongreveng_ 17y agoI haven't seen it yet, but I assume it's just a regurgitation of a "noble savage" story. I want to make a movie about a technologically and culturally advanced people who encounter a primitive race. The primitives have high murder & infanticide rates, endless stupid tribal wars, etc. The technologically advanced people force assimilate or drive off the primitives and live happily ever after. The End.
- ryanwaggoner 17y agoWatch any old western :)