A Fresh New Look
I just finished watching Battle for Terra about five minutes ago. It came out in 2007, and my father had queued it on our Netflix account. He finished it and gave it to me to watch.
It was much different that I origially imagined. The story was that of a peaceful planet with it's own inhabitants with their own culture. Apparently, our kind (humans) managed to finally destroy Earth and changed Venus and Mars so it could hold life. Just like America and England, the two planets sought to individuate from Earth and war broke between the three of them, destrying the last of mankind's home. They took to the outer reaches of space to find more places to live. Generations later, they found Terra.
It's a typical story, much like Pocahantas and Avatar. Same type of story. You have a bad-guy general of an army that wants to destroy everything and take over. Of course the good guys triumph over the bad, but this movie made me look at the featured human in the story. he knew what was right and wat was wrong. He was forced by said bad-guy to choose between his race and the Terrians, but having been saved by a Terrian and seeing her culture, he couldn't let her die. He saved his human companion and managed to slip in saving the alien as well.
Of course war broke out between the two races. The bad-guy deployed this massive thing to convert the atmosphere in Terra to support human life by converting their air into oxygen. But doing that causes the Terrians to suffocate. While the Terrians stirred up their warring past, the Elder made a good point. He said, "Even peaceful creatures need to defend themselves from danger."
The human soldier that was saved by the Terrian was confronted with another problem. The same girl was fighting for her race and the human had to choose, again, between fighting for his race or betraying them to keep the peace with Terra. While there was a small part I did not anticipate, the end was a happy one, where the remaining humans worked together with the Terrians to live together on the same planet.
This story makes me think about what we do now. I'm not a tree hugger, but I'm not willing to sit around and wait for us to take to the sky. We ended up here by some chance (whether by God or by sheer evolution) and either way you look at it, this is our home. Our HOME. We belong on solid land; not the sky, not under water, not inside the shell of a piece of astral rock (meaning underground). What we do now affects our future more than we know.
I see mankind as a warring, angry animal sometimes. Look at all the wars we had and the war that's going on now. It's nuts, and sometimes I'm damned ashamed of being a human. But I have a responsibility, as do we all, to see that those we love are safe. It's that little feeling of caring that reassures me that Man isn't an animal, or a beast. Our bodies may have evolved from monkies, but our minds and reasoning haven't.
It just annoys me that about 80% of mankind can't seem to make it as far as they want to, that the remaining 20% can't use their reasoning and that only 2 1/2% of that 20 are truly the ones who want us ALL to blow ourselves up. Don't annoy me about the percentages. I pulled them from my own head because that's how I seem to pick it out.
In conclusion... we need to stop making movies about peace between races of two different planets and start making some damn peace between the races of the planet EARTH.
It was much different that I origially imagined. The story was that of a peaceful planet with it's own inhabitants with their own culture. Apparently, our kind (humans) managed to finally destroy Earth and changed Venus and Mars so it could hold life. Just like America and England, the two planets sought to individuate from Earth and war broke between the three of them, destrying the last of mankind's home. They took to the outer reaches of space to find more places to live. Generations later, they found Terra.
It's a typical story, much like Pocahantas and Avatar. Same type of story. You have a bad-guy general of an army that wants to destroy everything and take over. Of course the good guys triumph over the bad, but this movie made me look at the featured human in the story. he knew what was right and wat was wrong. He was forced by said bad-guy to choose between his race and the Terrians, but having been saved by a Terrian and seeing her culture, he couldn't let her die. He saved his human companion and managed to slip in saving the alien as well.
Of course war broke out between the two races. The bad-guy deployed this massive thing to convert the atmosphere in Terra to support human life by converting their air into oxygen. But doing that causes the Terrians to suffocate. While the Terrians stirred up their warring past, the Elder made a good point. He said, "Even peaceful creatures need to defend themselves from danger."
The human soldier that was saved by the Terrian was confronted with another problem. The same girl was fighting for her race and the human had to choose, again, between fighting for his race or betraying them to keep the peace with Terra. While there was a small part I did not anticipate, the end was a happy one, where the remaining humans worked together with the Terrians to live together on the same planet.
This story makes me think about what we do now. I'm not a tree hugger, but I'm not willing to sit around and wait for us to take to the sky. We ended up here by some chance (whether by God or by sheer evolution) and either way you look at it, this is our home. Our HOME. We belong on solid land; not the sky, not under water, not inside the shell of a piece of astral rock (meaning underground). What we do now affects our future more than we know.
I see mankind as a warring, angry animal sometimes. Look at all the wars we had and the war that's going on now. It's nuts, and sometimes I'm damned ashamed of being a human. But I have a responsibility, as do we all, to see that those we love are safe. It's that little feeling of caring that reassures me that Man isn't an animal, or a beast. Our bodies may have evolved from monkies, but our minds and reasoning haven't.
It just annoys me that about 80% of mankind can't seem to make it as far as they want to, that the remaining 20% can't use their reasoning and that only 2 1/2% of that 20 are truly the ones who want us ALL to blow ourselves up. Don't annoy me about the percentages. I pulled them from my own head because that's how I seem to pick it out.
In conclusion... we need to stop making movies about peace between races of two different planets and start making some damn peace between the races of the planet EARTH.