Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Space Balls Ecocide

This hilarious satire of all movies of the outer-space genre offers an interesting example of topic of war and the environment. The Space Balls attack the planet of Druidia in order to get their fresh air to sustain the Space Ball planet, while killing the Druidians. When the air is being sucked out of their enclosing bubble the snow is taken off the mountains and the trees are ripped one by one out of the ground. The Space Balls are essentially committing an ecocide. I wonder if this is intentionally satirizing the way in which humans wage war on a person's environment.

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