Klavan On The Culture » Movie Reveals Truth About Environmentalism

Klavan On The Culture

May 18th, 2009 9:46 pm

Movie Reveals Truth About Environmentalism

[contains spoilers for The Day The Earth Stood Still]

Over the weekend, I watched The Day The Earth Stood Still, a 1950’s sci-fi classic retooled for the present day…   if by retooled one means transformed into a nauseating smorgasbord of left-wing cliches.  Yowser, this puppy has everything from the Good Muslim to the Trigger-Happy Military to the Evil Guy With The – Ooooh! – Flag Lapel Pin, and those are just for starters.   Hey, thanks for guiding us with your moral wisdom, Hollywood Moviemakers – I guess you really do get enlightened during all that time you spend driving between divorce court and rehab.

Anyway, as to the movie’s plot:  Keanu Reeves plays a monotonal alien, which is kind of like me playing a conservative novelist.  He comes to earth on a mysterious mission so the Secretary of State summons astro-biologist Jennifer Connelly, because when aliens invade your planet, dude, you need the cutest scientist you can find.

Jennifer discovers that Keanu is sort of a spaceman Al Gore – like Al Gore himself – on an enlightened mission to save the earth from pollution.  How is he going to accomplish that?  Why, by destroying the human race that causes all the mess, of course.  That’s right.  He’s going to murder every man, woman and child so the trees won’t die.  And he’s the good guy!

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