(December 15, 2022 at 5:20 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: When Worlds Collide (1951)
It is kind of a cute movie in a way that it looks like an illustrated children’s book about science and the world from the 50s. I even made a few screencaps.
But talk about the PC. It’s not even funny or PC, it’s just fuckin racist. They couldn’t save one non-WASP person from the destruction of Earth and take him or her to another planet?! It is almost like this whole disaster was for a “higher” purpose of being some white filter on the human race. And I do highlight this problem because the movie is very Christiany: the whole story is kind of based on Noah and the ark, the movie starts with the image of the Bible and with the words from the Bible, the most important book that they are saving is the Bible (they probably didn’t even bring any of Darwin’s books), and the movie even ends with church music and church choir as they step onto a new Eden. And yet they couldn’t save one non-white person. Not just not save, but not appear in the movie at all that features hundreds of people. I mean Christians, where is your supposed love and tolerance of everyone that you claim you possess in superior quantities?
But I do wish this would be re-made today into a TV show. There could be lots of drama, like who do we save as a sample of humanity to re-populate the human race. Do we bring gays? And there could be a crisis: many LGBT couples splitting and claiming they have been “cured” of homosexuality, just because they are afraid, they would not be picked to be taken on a spaceship and saved from the distraction of Earth. And then there are several rockets. One is even labeled a “woke” rocket because they have some LGBT people on it. So, this other rocket that is filled with righteous Christians and funded by NRA starts shooting on this “woke” rocket while they are in space because they don’t want them to bring AIDS and other insanity induced by Fox News hysteria.
If you’re going to get this worked up about racism and religious bigotry in 1950s films, you’re going to have a breakdown.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson