SP22 HI242 Week 13 The Wandering Earth 流浪地球 (2019) by Jenny Day https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/sp22hi242week13 Please respond to three questions: 1) What is the central message of the film? 2) What kinds of political and ethical issues does it raise? 3) Finally, what is your favorite scene? Post a screen shot. en-us 2022-01-22 19:38:33 UTC 2025-10-31 13:02:24 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f3a5.png Please respond to three questions: 1) What is the central message of the film? 2) What kinds of political and ethical issues does it raise? 3) Finally, what is your favorite scene? Post a screen shot. jhuangfu1_1 https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/sp22hi242week13/wish/2148719370 2022-04-19 14:49:48 UTC https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/sp22hi242week13/wish/2148719370 gpalmer16 https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/sp22hi242week13/wish/2149340827 1. I think the central message of the film surrounds the idea that mankind under the direction and influence of Chinese culture and tradition will survive. In other words, Chinese culture and tradition should be what global society can derive from and therefor thrive and advance. The movie does have a multilateral approach to solving problems, but it is under the guise of Chinese greatness. 
2-3. This question ties into my favorite scene, but one of my main issues about this movie is its very premise: that the sun is trying into a red dwarf and will destroy earth. Of course, this is highly improbable in the near future and instead, the real threat to earth is climate change brought on by humans. I find it very interesting that this movie chose not to address any climate issues at all and instead attributed earths downfall to nature. China is one of the world biggest contributors to pollution and seeing the old city of Beijing and an Olympic stadium in this moment was a reminder that the industrialization and resources expended in the creation of those things heavily impact the earth. The movie sees those buildings as a symbol of greatness and prosperity, but in reality it is one of the factors that would actually cause earths downfall, not the sun dying. The scene where the group is traveling on a rescue mission stock out to me because it was a reminder of what we had read about. As the group are looking at the old buildings of Shanghai and reminiscing, we see an olympic stadium from 2044. As our readings talked about, the Olympics became a huge symbol for China because it showed that the country was a world leader and successfully industrialized. 

Aside from the glaring problems with the premise, I did like that there was multilateral approaches to government, unlike a lot of America post apocalyptic films. However, it does somewhat paint an unrealistic picture given the current climate of foreign affairs in relation to China. Other ethical issues are who gets to survive and who doesn't. They posed it as a lottery, but we also see the kids of a prominent government figure automatically get tickets. I do wonder what the quota was for each country in terms of how many people were let survive, especially considering China has one of the largest populations of people. ]]> 2022-04-19 22:05:37 UTC https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/sp22hi242week13/wish/2149340827 oona oonacampisi https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/sp22hi242week13/wish/2150679663 1) The central message of the film is about humans drive for survival. In this case it is a matter for all of humankind and the earth itself. As seen in the film the issues of survival and actions that need to be taken seem to be under China's influence the most, attributing to the planets survival. 
2) What I saw to be a political issue was the films common implication that the US and other industrial countries were at fault, which continued the allusion of China's greatness. It also raises the question of who is to blame and who should fix a crisis such as this-- as well as other climate crisis's. It also seems to call out countries and their individuality and how it could possibly be the downfall of all life on earth unless they all work together.
3) My favorite scene was the end as the group on the station understood their sacrifice was for the greater good and while they didn't survive, earth and humanity would. As the earth was able to pass Jupiter as "earth survived"; it was a bittersweet end as it also makes me question how much the governments on earth really did to help and what they would have done without the space station.

]]> 2022-04-20 16:51:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/sp22hi242week13/wish/2150679663 Thomas Tan s8wknc8mnt https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/sp22hi242week13/wish/2150963314 This film is a brilliant sci-fi movie and it is probably the best Chinese sci-fi ever. I watched it the first day it was published. The central message I guess is the power of people's cooperation. Through people's cooperation (transportation), the engine could be fixed and the hope could be restored. And people's wise could solve the problem that even computers cannot. 
The political message, in my opinions, is the praise on collectivism. There're lots of scenes that individuals sacrificed themselves for the interest of the whole population, such as the death of Pei Qiang and his father. 
My favorite scene is the picture when everyone used their resources to transport the fire and prepare planet's engines. The director used grand picture to build up the power of people and cooperation. ]]> 2022-04-20 20:21:07 UTC https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/sp22hi242week13/wish/2150963314 Sandro Esposito aesposito25 https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/sp22hi242week13/wish/2151165020 1) The central message of the film relates to altruism, as many of the favored characters in the movie choose sacrifice for the greater good of humanity. The movie also enforces the idea that human beings will always carry on, despite how drastic the scenario may seem.
2) It raises issues questioning the value of individual lives versus the collective, and also addresses rules and authority and whether or not it should be respected when it challenges your beliefs. The writers seem to believe that you should do what you know to be right, so long as it is in the best interest of others. The movie also addresses economic issues a bit, as money is known to be a thing of the past.]]> 2022-04-21 00:24:27 UTC https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/sp22hi242week13/wish/2151165020 Yiru Tu yirutu777 https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/sp22hi242week13/wish/2151249730 1. The central idea of this film is that although the technology and leaders of countries give up surviving humans, someone like Liu qi and his friends will try their best even sacrifice their lives. 
2. In the film, the coalition government puts decisions in the hands of computers, not humans themselves, which shows that they believe in technology and science more. And at the end of the movie shows that they were wrong, the cooperation of humans could save themselves, and especially satirized those leaders' wrong decisions。 
3. The most impressive scene is when Liu Qi turned off the electronic screen of the fake scene of the outside world. For fewer concerns and rebels, the government tried to cover the truth that they have left the sun for a while. ]]> 2022-04-21 01:33:50 UTC https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/sp22hi242week13/wish/2151249730 jidemot1 https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/sp22hi242week13/wish/2151328947 This film did what many if not all American movies do. They were the center of attention, the smarter ones, and the heroes of the story. The Chinese were the ones with hope, with a plan that no one else wanted to listen to. I wouldn’t say this is the main focus of the film, but the movie is incredibly patriotic for these reasons. Especially for the shot the Olympic stadium of Shanghai 2044.

As for the point of the film I think it revolved around sacrifice and survival. Characters showed a lot of courage and did what they could “for the good of the people”

There was the ethical issue involving the space station. It seemed like the technology would turn on the humans, which is a trope seen in a lot of sci-fi films. This is not the case as the desertion mission, Helios, is written into the contract. The plan was to leave Earth to its own devices if things got bad. The station was “humanities last hope for survival” but this came at the cost of the rest of the living population, there was no intended attempt to aid those left on the surface. It is an extreme sacrifice, not that anyone was happy about it. It is like the trolley problem.

The remaining team on Earth fought tooth and nail to get the main engine to work and then for their last minute plan to work as well. To use Jupiter to push them away from destruction. 

There was also some pretty cool imagery of space and then of Jupiter. I liked those scenes the most.]]> 2022-04-21 02:36:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/sp22hi242week13/wish/2151328947 Yotam Dinour yotamdinur https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/sp22hi242week13/wish/2151359309 I am a huge fan of Liu Cixin's body of work, especially his "Three Body Problem" trilogy. As such, I was excited to see what a big-budget adaptation of one of his most famous short stories would look like (funnily enough, there are actually around three concurrent adaptations of the TBP trilogy already underway- two Chinese and one American). Upon watching the movie, I am struck by how different it is from the original text. "The Wandering Earth" short story is rather grim, proposing a world where mankind has intentionally ravaged our own planet for the promise of a distant, brighter future. It asks really dark questions- what are we willing to sacrifice to save our species? What is the point of saving the human race if we must shed everything that makes us "human" in the first place? It deals with the existential, cosmic horror of plunging headfirst into a dark future. 
The film retains very little of that dark tone, substituting it instead with an energetic optimism about humanity. It still raises the same questions as the story- we are shown a world made unrecognizable by human mega-engineering- but it also answers them: hope, it purports, will redeem us. Hope will subsist mankind through the journey into darkness. I can't dislike it for making that change, however- the optimism of the film is infectious in the same way "Independence Day" is. The fundamental capacity for human good and international cooperation is on full display.
Both the film and story present the immanent destruction of the sun as a climate change allegory, but they treat it in very different ways. In the story, a group of scientists determine that the sun isn't going to explode, that the whole Wandering Earth project was an unimaginably catastrophic unforced error. An angry populace is about to execute the scientists who made the original discovery- only to have the sun explode anyway. This plotline is grim and depressing, focusing on the terror of transforming society to avoid scientific catastrophe.
The film's climate change allegory is very different. In the film, the combined efforts of humanity are unequivocally good. Catastrophe occurs, but is mitigated by heroic sacrifice and collaboration. The decision of the World Government to save a fraction of humanity is painted as foolish and elitist- they lack hope in mankind's common goodness. The film, therefore, is very delicious climate change comfort food.
I really liked the first outing into the surface world. The long panning shot reveals the extent to which we've destroyed the Earth's surface, showing a giant mine. We then pan out to the reason for this extraction- the Earth Engine. The scale of the object is mesmerizing. We then pan out even further, to see a whole world pushed forward by these behemoths of construction. It tells the whole story of the film in one epic shot: mankind sacrifices the familiar for a better tomorrow. 

P.S. Everybody read the Three Body Problem trilogy! It's great :)]]> 2022-04-21 03:01:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/sp22hi242week13/wish/2151359309 Diva Belo https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/sp22hi242week13/wish/2151382942 1. In my opinion the central message of the film is how our inaction to climate change will affect our lives to the point where it will be too late to do anything. However, interestingly, despite China being one of the main contributor to global warming, the film tried to portray the idea of "Chinese supremacy" where China will be the one to save the world from this catastrophe.  
2. The film focused on the communist and the countries from the Global south (Russia, China, Japan, Indonesia, India etc...) working together to save mankind where western countries play very passive role. For example, the phone call between Liu Qi's dad and the French representative/leader. Portraying these southern countries as the heroes in this crisis and China being the leader of it. The system of only some people having the privilege for an underground pass and the others left dying could also be the way the film tried to criticize the west on their class system, that favors humans based on certain categories not merely for their humanity. 
3. My favorite scene is when the grandpa talked about the good old days, where although he was poor but he very much appreciated the simple things in life such as his wife's cookings that were not even good according to him. It showed that when we live with plenty of resources we tend to forget how lucky we are to have the things we have and we long for it when it is gone. The grandkids also never experienced the "normal" life so they have no idea what the grandpa talks about, which is very sad. ]]> 2022-04-21 03:22:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/sp22hi242week13/wish/2151382942 James McLaughlin jmclaugh7 https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/sp22hi242week13/wish/2151385467 1. The central message of the film seems to be that the world would eventually need to come together in order to act for the good of humanity as a whole.
2. The film raises the issue of leaving control of powerful systems in the hands of AI, much like the film 2001. Specifically, the film argues against leaving such important matters as the survival of humanity in the hands of a computer.
3. My personal favorite scene in the movie came near then end of the film, when Wu Jing sacrificed himself to save the Earth, while giving an extremely heartfelt farewell speech to his only son that he barely knew due to his extended stays on the space station orbiting the planet.]]> 2022-04-21 03:24:50 UTC https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/sp22hi242week13/wish/2151385467 Alex Western awestern1115 https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/sp22hi242week13/wish/2151397044 1. The central message is that humans are resilient as a species. When faced with adversity, the human race tends to come together and make personal sacrifices for the good of the many. 
2. The film raises the political issue of global cooperation; the idea that countries must band together to serve a common purpose of saving all of humanity. This seems to allude to global responses to issues such as Covid or climate change which require global cooperation and personal sacrifice for the good of the many, a theme also present in the structure of collectivization. 
3. The scene when Liu Peiqiang sacrifices himself stood out to me as a prime example of the theme of self sacrifice for the greater good. ]]> 2022-04-21 03:37:00 UTC https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/sp22hi242week13/wish/2151397044 Ethan Harvey EthanHarvey512 https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/sp22hi242week13/wish/2151419893 The central message of the film was a mix of the importance of human preservation/climate change, the power of a unified community, and the threat/prevalence of hyper advanced AI. 
The most obvious political/ethical issue that I found was the selfishness of the elite and politicians in power. When it looked like all hope was lost, the leaders of the world were content with betraying and stranding the entire human race to save the select few that were hibernating in the space station. One could argue that they were acting in the best interest of the continuation of the human race but without the earth, there would be no point of continuing their mission. There would be no where to inhabit even if they reached their destination. 
This was all a metaphor to describe the actions that many governments around the world take when they are faced with tragedy. It is the people whom suffer the most. The elite are the one that are able to lay back ("in their sleeping pods") and let the common citizen try to figure out their mess. In the end it is usually when the people band together that problems are solved. 
My favorite scene was when Liu Hu Kou realizes that he will not see his father again. The conversation that was heard by every citizen was filled with emotion but it also showed why you should not take your loved ones for granted. The entire film, Liu Hu Kou resented his father and didn't show him any love. It was only when he knew his father was going to die that he displayed his love for him. ]]> 2022-04-21 04:02:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/sp22hi242week13/wish/2151419893 Mason Johnson masonsjohnson3 https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/sp22hi242week13/wish/2151421591 1) I believe that the central message of the movie is that we have effected the earth in negative and irreversible ways and the only way to move forward and fix it is to come together. It is only via the earth uniting under one government, and then also the people at the end doing what needs to be done together. 
2) There are several ethical and political issues that this movie points out: the most obvious being our mistreatment of the climate. The movie interestingly frames it as a course of nature and not humans fault that the earth is dying, but I think it raises the point. Another issue that it very clearly shows is the infighting and division that we have in our politics. Standing alone we would perish, but together we can succeed. I think the film also raises the issue that sometimes the government is wrong. The only reason that earth managed to survive was due to direct treason against the UEC by the father.
3) My favorite scene was probably when they drive into the ruins of Shanghai. It was incredible to see the visuals of what had happened. I mean I could say I liked other scenes for their emotional or contextual value, but for some reason Shanghai really stood out to me. I think it nicely tied in how much humanity had lost, and how much people were willing to sacrifice for the greater good, especially with the death of the grandfather.

]]> 2022-04-21 04:04:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/sp22hi242week13/wish/2151421591 Ella Shaw eshaw118 https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/sp22hi242week13/wish/2151437292 1. This film I believe had a few main messages from a general standpoint. In general, Humans need to work together for the greater good even if it means risking one's own life. The idea is that the benefit of the whole is better than just the benefit of oneself. Also, the fact that we need to be able to risk ourselves for the greater good. Nothing can come form just waiting and hoping for the best. It is more effective to work for a solution even if has the possibility of failure.

2. The political and ethical questions are some of the same things I mentioned before. It is more important to work for the better of the whole even if it means risking one's own life. This is a prominent theme within the history of China. An added aspect that was present but I wouldn't say as prevalent was the aspect that a large group of people can do anything. This would likely be present within the idea of the earth joining forces to work for a common goal. But that then ties back into the overall theme of working for the benefit of the whole. Again these are governmental themes that China has in terms of the overall success of the country requires the risk of a few. As well as the fact that it is most beneficial to believe in something (the Chinese government). Also, an ethical question that they also decided to take a definite stance on that is sometimes debated is whether or not it is good to give people hope with a possibly doomed endeavor. The movie makes the stance that it is always beneficial but honestly it's usually impossible to tell which is better. Trying for something that might fail or accepting demise.

3. I'm a sucker for a happy ending, I love the "riding off into the sunset" ending. This is the last scene of the film showing the sibling moving on with their lives even after experiencing such a devastating catastrophe. Life moves on.]]> 2022-04-21 04:24:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/sp22hi242week13/wish/2151437292 Devin Yang hulkyyn https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/sp22hi242week13/wish/2151490203 Unlike many of others who consider film as Brilliant, or Amazing, I do not think it deserves such praise, to me it is just qualified.
The message it want to send is of course nice, that with cooperation and union, people can achieve amazing things.
However, a very serious political issue is then revealed, that how should we decide who is saved and who has to die under a political authortarianism, in the film, such question is been handle by LUCK, a random draw, but who get to judge if the draw is fair and just?
All these issues are not discussed, or is too hard to be discussed.
And then, this is my favorite scene, a the Child is sent to the underground city without his parents. ]]> 2022-04-21 05:23:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/sp22hi242week13/wish/2151490203 Yifei Chen yifeichen1 https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/sp22hi242week13/wish/2151529730 The central message of the film is the kernel of common human destiny. It reveals the human spirit, the power of human survival, and the definition of hope. In addition, it also shows the unique spirit of China and conveys the Chinese style. The film uses a good perspective: the home as the entrance and cuts from home to the human home. According to the film, the struggle, sacrifice, and hope amid human salvation embody the process of the force that drives human civilization to prosperity.

As a comprehensive art form, the film has become a popular form of entertainment in the new era and an important carrier of ideological and political education. The film tells a grand, long, science fiction story of saving humanity by saving the Earth. It is a science fiction story, which represents that anything is possible. The film's core is to convince some people to make sacrifices, to let some people hide in a dungeon so that people in the present and people in the future will work for a plan 2500 years from now. It is not science but religion and culture that can convince people in the future to make a choice. The complexity of the world and human beings goes far beyond mere scientific fantasy. The spirit of great love and community of destiny expressed in the film goes far beyond the emotional catharsis of human beings as individuals. If there is anything that can last longer, say up to 2,500 years, it is religion and culture. Religion can survive for a long time because it tends to be reduced to an instrument of political domination and struggle. The plan to save the Earth as described in "Wandering Earth" is complex and lengthy, and one wrong step will not lead to the final result. As imaginative creatures, human beings can develop grandiose imaginations that go far beyond the individual and the life cycle. As a result, human society is moving forward unpredictably in such lengthy and unpredictable contradictions. The scientist who proposes to wander the Earth deludes himself into controlling the next 2500 years with firm power or faith in the movie. Dozens of generations of human beings live instrumentally according to this plan, with the ultimate goal of saving the Earth only.

"Wandering Earth" uses the means of film and television art to interpret the community of human destiny. People of all nationalities worldwide are united in their struggle for the same goal of keeping the Earth and humanity alive. The director has interpreted this concept of harmony and difference very well. In the race against time, countless people have defied the odds to continue the hope of survival for a hundred generations of descendants. Near the end of the film, LiuQi stands at the closest location to Jupiter, where his father is located. However, his father in order to be able to complete this plan will space station's remaining fuel directly hit the past. With his sacrifice in exchange for the hope of the entire planet. Echoing the beginning of the film, Dad is about to say goodbye to the Earth and go on a mission to the space station. The theme of farewell, placed in the context of the Earth and space, is particularly touching. A small farewell to human beings is saddening, let alone a long farewell. Only before the disaster will human beings see the most beautiful aura of humanity. This kind of feelings the death hope that the loved ones are safe, the most can touch the heart.
]]> 2022-04-21 06:00:34 UTC https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/sp22hi242week13/wish/2151529730 I believe the central message is people's lives are worth sacrificed if the justification is for the survival of the human species. The other message is that earth cannot be abandoned. I think realistically if people have the technology to push the earth like the film indicated, they have the power to make spaceships and migrate people to other places. In other words, a sense of no migration political propaganda politically. My favorite scene is honestly they kinda assume the global government to be like the Chinese government. Saying they will fix the machines no matter how many human lives are finished. For those who do have opportunities to live underground, there is not a scene about them. They also mentioned that the opportunity to live underground cannot be transferred or sold to others. I feel like it is similar to what Chinese government would do. hxu44 https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/sp22hi242week13/wish/2151907835 2022-04-21 11:49:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/sp22hi242week13/wish/2151907835 Nick Andre https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/sp22hi242week13/wish/2151934948 The central message is that hope is precious and if you have any hope you should never give up. The movie creates an ethical issue at the start when there is a lottery for who gets to live underground. That question is whether it is ethical to doom a large portion of the population to die or not. The movie creates another ethical issue when the original wandering Earth plan seems to have failed. This leaves the choice of whether you should risk the future of the human race to save those currently living, or if you should safeguard the future of the human race and doom those who are currently living. 
My favorite scene was when Liu Peiqiang sacrifices himself for the sake of everyone on Earth. While he did take other people and Project Helios down with him I thought it was still overall a very honorable thing to do.]]> 2022-04-21 12:15:07 UTC https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/sp22hi242week13/wish/2151934948 Joe Pastore jpastore11 https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/sp22hi242week13/wish/2152095441 I think the central themes in the film are hope, family, and humanity. The film focuses on one family and their quest to survive this interesting apocalypse. Throughout the film as the main characters encounter a variety of challenges/obstacles, pure humanity is shown as members of the rescue team come to terms with their dark reality and are tested time and time again facing absolute desperation. I think the ethical controversy in the film is deciding who lives and who dies whether is the Mom, the people who don't get into the underground cities, or when the space station abandons earth in each case people are sacrificed so other can live. My favorite scene in the movie is when you find out the history of the family's circumstances and how they got into the city and adopted the sister, it's tremendously uplifting and heartbreaking at the same time great scene. ]]> 2022-04-21 14:01:51 UTC https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/sp22hi242week13/wish/2152095441 The Wandering Earth bellahynes https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/sp22hi242week13/wish/2152109365 1) The central message of the film is that the populous can unite against a unanimous threat in order to collectively solve a problem. More specifically, the political motivations behind the film include a message on the power of collectivization and putting the greater good in front of the individual. Simultaneously, however, there was definitely a nationalist motivation behind the film to argue for the political, economic, and social greatness of the Chinese government perhaps and that their perseverance and strength will be what unites the rest of the world. I think of the scenes around 1:33:18 and slightly before too where they are continuously calling for backup units and everyone had just given up sort of suggest this.  
2) The issue in the film is presented as a naturally occurring existential threat not human manufactured. It is possibly an allegory for climate change and the materialism/greed that drives the current, real, destruction of our planet, unlike the non-human created threat in the film. By using an allegory this suggests that the filmmaker was concerned with the issue of climate change and the ability of the global population, probably more specifically the global leaders, to collectively address the issue. The rapid construction/industrialization that came underway in the early twentieth century in China is responsible for a large portion of current global emission rates. It is unlikely that the government would have allowed for a film that directly addresses that as it would harm the perception of the value the projects have in the long term if they have such a detrimental effect on the environment.  
3) I am unable to take screenshots, but my favorite scene was probably at 38:50 when everyone on the space station was joined together to debrief the next phase of the mission and the national flag badges on all of their shoulders were visible. It was a nice encapsulation of the general theme running throughout the film of unity against an existential threat. I just found the thought exercise of how concepts of nationhood and state sovereignty as well as how nationalism would be compromised in situations where all of humanity is at stake like the one in the movie, or like the real pressing issue we do currently face, climate change.  
]]> 2022-04-21 14:09:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/sp22hi242week13/wish/2152109365 Brendan Grover https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/sp22hi242week13/wish/2152117571 From my viewing of the film, the central messages of The Wandering Earth were, that humanity needs to work together to overcome great challenges. It also gives a slight reference to the Maoist Red>Expert ideology where the will of the people if they try hard enough can do the impossible like turning the Earth into a spaceship and flying for 2,500 years to a new solar system.
The political and ethical issues being raised are about how humans treat one another as well as the planet.
My favorite scene was when the plan to catapult the Earth from Jupiter's gravitational well worked. The reignition of hope and having overcome this great obstacle impressed me and made me believe that by working together humanity can accomplish great things.]]> 2022-04-21 14:14:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/sp22hi242week13/wish/2152117571 Matthew Karpousis mkarpous https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/sp22hi242week13/wish/2152175717 After watching this great sci-fi movie, I believe there are multiple central messages intended for the viewers to think about. The first is the unbelievable capabilities humans have if we all work together for a common goal or good. This is shown    throughout the film with the ability to figure out ways to survive by creating (underground cities and thousands of thrusters) Another central theme to this movie is the act of self sacrifice. Countless times in this movie we see individuals make decisions not based off their self interest, but for the greater good of their love ones and the humanity as a whole. Lastly I believe this movie was intended for the viewers to reflect on the world we live in today. Global warming and the effects it has on this earth continues to be a  discussion that is often overlooked. Although not entirely scientifically accurate, this movie makes us think realize the extreme effect we could have on this Earth. While watching this film, I started to question how “the earth got to way it was and how they decided who was allowed in the underground city. These questions are both I believe ethical and political issues. The earth got to the way it was because we allowed it to. The acts and decisions we made weather it was for economic gain or industrialization, that is the outcome. The abuse on the plant for human consumption was finally too great for the earth to withstand. I believe who was chosen for the underground cities was a political issue. The people with power ultimately decided that only one person from each family can go with a child, basically destroying everyone’s family from the start. My favorite scene in the movie is when we find out what turkey happened to the mother. Although extremely sad this scene shows how detrimental that only one parent can go to the under city. This scene also shows that self sacrifice doesn’t come without pain and sorrow. Although not being her decision to pull the plug, there is little doubt that the mother based on her health would’ve made the same decision. ]]> 2022-04-21 14:50:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/sp22hi242week13/wish/2152175717