Another Michael Moore! Moore would feed a family of 30 cannibals living in a rain forest but he chooses to live in America while eating Big Macs and talking about capitalism’s deforestation of South America for cattle raising. And the consumer rushes out to support the nonsense, as usual.
This movie was technology vs nature. There are just so many archetypes one can use. He could have i suppose based it on Rome conquering other countries but maybe they weren’t technologically advanced enough. Perhaps Nazi Germany but Europe wasn’t so in touch with nature at the time and that fight,initially one sided from an armaments standpoint (Polish cavalry)or tactics (duh French)did not stay so for a long time.
Any European contact with the new world or Africa would have been alright to use but again,the differences between repeating rifles vs bows and arrows or a Spanish conquistador loading his rifle one shot a time is not quite the stark contrast.
At the end of the day,when a technologically superior civilization meets one not so advanced,one perhaps more nature based,there will be problems.
I’d love to know just what civilization the critics would model the story on?
Don’t forget,there are stories out there where we,planet Earth,is the backward civilization and ends up on the short end of the stick.
Oh and one last thing. The story doesn’t make every earth person evil. I watched it and didn’t feel like i was linked to the evil humans or the scientists. I enjoyed it for what it was.
Just does not seem like an interesting movie. Titanic was a phenominal movie that he won’t be able to repeat with any other movie he makes...it is a once in a lifetime movie. I will not see this movie but I encourage EVERYONE to attend “The Blind Side” by Sandra Bullock. I am telling you it is the best movie of the year.
Exactly. "Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short" is for thee, not for me.