Any theory why matches are so precious? Is it just because of the prestige value or do you think they actually do something with them?
shareNo clue. I wish there were more english commentaries on the storyline. It could be that they have no easy way of creating fire, but that seems unlikely. The director could have just chosen some arbitrary thing that was common on Earth.
shareIt is a kind of exaggerated sarcasm of the movie's creators. In the Soviet Union a box of matches (with 100 matches or so) cost one kopeck (now one kopeck is $0.000373 approx). It was the cheapest thing that you could buy (as far as I remember). But in that world of Kin-Dza-Dza it is like platinum in ours. It's not a matter of "usefulness", but a matter of social status, i.e. more matches means more power and self-respect. As *beep* as in our society.
In my humble opinion, of course.
By the way, have it on official DVD with remastered picture and sound.
Regards from Russia
Andrei
The whole movie was a commentary on culture.
One man's garbage is another man's treasure. Also, the earth men viewed the aliens as barbaric and primitive in their racism, but the feeling was reciprocated by the aliens. It just goes to show that some norms that we take for granted do not translate across different cultures.
possibly they might need matches for the lack of sulphur(brimstone) on their planet, but again, it could be just a writer's sarcasm.
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