Product: La Guerre du feu (1982)
Rating: 4.0
The More Things Change, the More They Stay The Same
Two days ago, I saw this movie for the first time. I was blown away!I've been reading the other reviews of this movie here. It's not in my nature to repeat what others have eloquently pointed out. But there was one thought that kept coming back to me again and again while I watched it. And in doing so, perhaps I will contribute to the uncovering of this movie's artistic value.There was absolutely nothing in the behavior of the various characters in this movie that human beings in our own society have not done again and again since the beginning of recorded history. We haven't changed much at all. We've only refined the more or less same primate behavior that was portrayed in this movie. In the end, all technology is a prosthetic of human imagination; whether it's a stone ax and crude fire making, or vast communication networks and arsenals of enough weaponry to destroy all life on this planet 100 time over. The motives are the same as always.There are very few exceptions to this - but perhaps enough to inspire optimism for the hope and future of humanity.