I'll write this comment as a response to another one.
First: "ET's all white and clean-cut": this is not automatically racist. This green planet is shown like a paradise, all right, but it is not shown as the only way to live right. "Sur les autres planètes, ils nous apprennent des choses!" - ("On the other planets, they teach us stuff!") says one of the Green-Planet-people. So, they are not perfect!
Also, they are saying that they have no problems because they only have ONE race on their planet. They are not saying that it is a BETTER race. They even explain the development of the Earth as "the most degenerated having the power" (and you honestly cannot say anyone else than the Whites are meant because humanity started to develop in Africa and I wouldn't say the colored people have the mass of the power on Earth.)
Later, the sons of Mila, the main character, talk to her about Aborigines: "They are beautiful! All black!" Also, the Aborigines are represented as the only people on Earth known to the Green-Planet-People who are as developed as they are, not destroying nature, knowing to do telepathy etc.
Yes, white people living in a paradise and making fun of humans on Earth - but making fun only of the WHITE people on Earth.
So much for "fascist" or "racist".
No work- simply not true. They live as farmers and farmers have to do farm work, as shown later on in the film.
No music - A CD with Elvis Presley music is brought to the people of the Green Planet, and they dance to it. Also, there has been music there in former times. This is perhaps what the Green Planet can still learn from the Earth.
No arts- well, you can say that you are bored without any arts, but those people are represented as having a very colorful life in their heads, and so many abilities with their heads - perhaps they don't need this. Or they can still learn to make visual arts, like learning to make music again. Nobody is telling you in the film that the arts are bad. Also, who knows what is happening on the other planets? Perhaps they have arts?
One of them is forced to go to Earth - oh come on. I could write the whole dialog down where Mila says she wants to go to Earth. Her sons try to keep her back and say "Mama, you're all right?" They are definitely not forcing her. Finally, the head woman asks here: "Mila, are you going or not?" and she says yes. That's it.
Do you know why they scramble the brain of some guys? Not to make it all 100 percent right. In the assembly of the Green Planet, before, they discussed that one can't make a whole population jump stages and stages of mental development, like "pulling on a salad won't make it grow." The head woman of the assembly says:" But we can put something on it" and that is what this "brain-scrambling" is.
They are attempting to make something better, but they can't change everything. What do you mean by saying "nothing gets any better?" You talk as if the Green-Planet-People had to make things better in terms of their paradise, and immediately, please. Don't forget that the film shows at the most some WEEKS of Mila and her sons on Earth. Wanna change the Earth in weeks?
They make the people around them THINK and change little ways of being. That's already much. They tell of their planet and they will come back. The Earth will not continue to be deserted of the "ET"s! And they're not messing everything up. Some mechanical devices like automates and two, three computers mess up, and a whole football match becomes a hilarious waltz dance - but this is really not the way a terrorist works to mess the Earth up. To say it short - it doesn't hurt and it makes spectators laugh. If you didn't laugh, fine. But let the others laugh.
To the football match again: maybe the fun of the people watching it is spoiled, but you certainly have fun watching it at home in front of your TV, and they don't DIE or anything. Also, the thing is not just to annoy people, but to make them think, again. Their fun could be spoiled when the game is boring. So what? They would hang in their seats and think: "Oh, I'd rather be home now." The way their "fun was spoiled" in the film, the masses rushed to the front, rushed in crowds from their seats, it wasn't clear what their emotions were, but they were certainly curious. Finally, the people playing the football match certainly had fun in the film reality. You don't get so often to kiss someone passionately on a football lawn while the judge is taking a shower on the same lawn and your whole team is dancing.
Finally: There are very few special effects, but there are some. Or can I go to your house and rent a white bubble with which to travel to the green planet? I promise I won't take you with me :-)
First: "ET's all white and clean-cut": this is not automatically racist. This green planet is shown like a paradise, all right, but it is not shown as the only way to live right. "Sur les autres planètes, ils nous apprennent des choses!" - ("On the other planets, they teach us stuff!") says one of the Green-Planet-people. So, they are not perfect!
Also, they are saying that they have no problems because they only have ONE race on their planet. They are not saying that it is a BETTER race. They even explain the development of the Earth as "the most degenerated having the power" (and you honestly cannot say anyone else than the Whites are meant because humanity started to develop in Africa and I wouldn't say the colored people have the mass of the power on Earth.)
Later, the sons of Mila, the main character, talk to her about Aborigines: "They are beautiful! All black!" Also, the Aborigines are represented as the only people on Earth known to the Green-Planet-People who are as developed as they are, not destroying nature, knowing to do telepathy etc.
Yes, white people living in a paradise and making fun of humans on Earth - but making fun only of the WHITE people on Earth.
So much for "fascist" or "racist".
No work- simply not true. They live as farmers and farmers have to do farm work, as shown later on in the film.
No music - A CD with Elvis Presley music is brought to the people of the Green Planet, and they dance to it. Also, there has been music there in former times. This is perhaps what the Green Planet can still learn from the Earth.
No arts- well, you can say that you are bored without any arts, but those people are represented as having a very colorful life in their heads, and so many abilities with their heads - perhaps they don't need this. Or they can still learn to make visual arts, like learning to make music again. Nobody is telling you in the film that the arts are bad. Also, who knows what is happening on the other planets? Perhaps they have arts?
One of them is forced to go to Earth - oh come on. I could write the whole dialog down where Mila says she wants to go to Earth. Her sons try to keep her back and say "Mama, you're all right?" They are definitely not forcing her. Finally, the head woman asks here: "Mila, are you going or not?" and she says yes. That's it.
Do you know why they scramble the brain of some guys? Not to make it all 100 percent right. In the assembly of the Green Planet, before, they discussed that one can't make a whole population jump stages and stages of mental development, like "pulling on a salad won't make it grow." The head woman of the assembly says:" But we can put something on it" and that is what this "brain-scrambling" is.
They are attempting to make something better, but they can't change everything. What do you mean by saying "nothing gets any better?" You talk as if the Green-Planet-People had to make things better in terms of their paradise, and immediately, please. Don't forget that the film shows at the most some WEEKS of Mila and her sons on Earth. Wanna change the Earth in weeks?
They make the people around them THINK and change little ways of being. That's already much. They tell of their planet and they will come back. The Earth will not continue to be deserted of the "ET"s! And they're not messing everything up. Some mechanical devices like automates and two, three computers mess up, and a whole football match becomes a hilarious waltz dance - but this is really not the way a terrorist works to mess the Earth up. To say it short - it doesn't hurt and it makes spectators laugh. If you didn't laugh, fine. But let the others laugh.
To the football match again: maybe the fun of the people watching it is spoiled, but you certainly have fun watching it at home in front of your TV, and they don't DIE or anything. Also, the thing is not just to annoy people, but to make them think, again. Their fun could be spoiled when the game is boring. So what? They would hang in their seats and think: "Oh, I'd rather be home now." The way their "fun was spoiled" in the film, the masses rushed to the front, rushed in crowds from their seats, it wasn't clear what their emotions were, but they were certainly curious. Finally, the people playing the football match certainly had fun in the film reality. You don't get so often to kiss someone passionately on a football lawn while the judge is taking a shower on the same lawn and your whole team is dancing.
Finally: There are very few special effects, but there are some. Or can I go to your house and rent a white bubble with which to travel to the green planet? I promise I won't take you with me :-)