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Originally Posted by Zetsubo
The film can be seen as asking the question: What would you do if you found a new life in another country or a whole other world and it is much better than the one you had before ?
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I actually found a small problem with this central question within the story. The odds were stacked in the themes favour. Specifically, Sully was a paraplegic, so of course he would prefer the body that allowed him to move, to be useful. The story would have been far more interesting if Sully came to the same conclusion, but without the initial motivation of living in a destroyed body (it would have also been far more interesting if he came to the conclusion without needing to bang a native...but I guess a general audience wouldn't be able to understand that killing natives is bad unless there is some sort of explicit emotional connection
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Additionally, I was unclear on just how bad off Earth was (obviously, there could never be a real time cut to Earth, because of the 4-6 year difference between the 2 planets). There were only 1 or 2 mentions of the decaying planet in the movie (and they were just enough to know that hyper-inflation and overpopulation had taken over) and really only one shot (I think, I actually forget if there was a real sequence showing Earth besides the brief morgue scene). Consequently, besides Sully's loss of legs, I was not very sure as to how bad off Earth was. If there is a sequel, I hope Earth is shown at least once, so we can have a better understanding of the motivations of the human characters.