This is one of the issues with sci-fi movies for the less metaphorically minded. Or, well, anyone. I find books make the ideas much more portable, which is half

This is one of the issues with sci-fi movies for the less metaphorically minded. Or, well, anyone. I find books make the ideas much more portable, which is half the fun of sci-fi in the first place. Things in real life are never exactly what they're like in the pictures.