Ender’s Game follows a young boy
who saves the world. As young kids they are monitored to see if they will be
able to go to the military academy and train to be commanders. Ender is picked
for is innovative thinking and sent to military school. Where he works with
others his age and train to fight Buggers (book term), who are aliens that
attacked the earth in the first Great War. Ender rises through the ranks and is
chosen to be the next great commander that will lead earth into battle. During
his training he plays ‘games’ that are suppose to test his responses in certain
battles. His final exam is the ultimate battle. Where he wipes out the whole
bugger race. He finds out shortly after that none of those practice and testing
scenarios were what they seems. He was actually fighting Buggers in real life. He
also comes to realize that the Aliens didn't want to fight and were a peaceful
race, that they were only defending what was left of a great species. Ender
takes the last alien queen egg that he found and goes into space seeking to
revive the species he killed.
This movie tells a lot of how we
view ourselves. That humans are the ultimate race and that all other are
inferior to us. Take out current day situations with animals, how most people
don't care for helping out and preserving the environment to help other
species, that only when it starts affecting us that we notice. The aliens in
Ender’s game were just looking for water if I remember and happen to stubble
upon earth. Where the first time around it was us in the right but after the
aliens left we were in the wrong to go after them and eradicate them. It also
shows a young boy as the main character, or most of the main characters are
young children, how their child like innocence is what we need to save the
world? Yes we should start thinking like children when it comes to certain
things. They have a very weird sense of right and wrong, that we all need.
Concerning the movie itself it was
an adaption of the books. It hit all the main parts that the book depicted and
was overall a very good book to movie scenario. A lot of people protested the
movie due to Orson Scoot Card’s anti-gay organization.
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