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Why not let the mutants live and evolve on the new planet. Perhaps they become decent again after more evolution.
That's assuming humans can even survive and thrive there. The mutants could have survived and terrorize them in a sequel. They could end up like "Don't look up" and end up as snacks for local fauna. Or maybe devolve into mindless mutants that find their place in the eco system.
"Would you rather stay in the tree, eating bananas, and never knowing what humor, or empathy, or deep love felt like? I didn't think so."
Yes. I just want my humble current human finite existance. I'm also the coward that would take the blue pill in the matrix. Don't wake me.
It's a typical trope. Another is that they won't die unless you decapitate them, even then some still come back. At least they retired the one where the girl is miles ahead of the killer but twists her ankle and screams like a siren to attract the killer.
"Immigrants should be grateful for the countries that allowed them to immigrate"
If you were to teach gratitude to your children, would you tell them to tolerate what the Chinese had to endure?
"Liberal Wikipeida as source? Please."
That's a lazy dismissal. If they said 1+1=2, would that be wrong?
"No movie is made in China without the approval of their dictatorial government"
There are. Some got taken down after release. Some won awards at foreign film festivals but hard to find in China due to censorship.
"I didn't say pro Communist propaganda, I said it's Chinese nationalist propaganda."
You literally said in your opening post it was "explicit Chinese Communist party propaganda".
They did the scene growing strawberries.
It could go 2 ways. Either she embraces freedom like the truck driver or she is doomed to eternal suffering like in The Age of Innocence.
For the same reason Martin Scorsese said The Age of Innocence was his most violent movie. Seemingly mild social moves which go against the mores of society or simply being can have catastrophic consequences. You need to calculate your every move to make sure you haven't broken some unwritten rule. It reminds me of Japanese society where social ostracization is feared more than the law for some minor infractions. The pain is emotional and psychological. It is real slow burn torture.
Even the glimmer of hope at the end is snatched away. A quick end from a bullet might be less tortuous.
The events in Nosedive are similar. Working hard alone isn't enough to get by. It's also stuff we have seen, one wrong move can wreck your life.
It's happening in China with people unable to pay their mortgages. Their bank accounts are frozen. There is no bankruptcy, you are on the hook for life and yet your life is also highly restricted. People are afraid to buy homes now.
Why did he kill them? So Cliff would feel the same pain? That seemed uncalled for.
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