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Klaatu Barada Nixed-too?

AICN has some potentially spoilerish and disappointing news in a review of a script for the Keanu Reeves remake of the classic sci-fi film The Day the Earth Stood Still. Read at your own risk. If it is a valid script and the reviewer is accurate, then the film's content and ultimately its themes and message have been shifted from the original--moving from themes addressing the harm we humans do to each other to the harm we humans do to the environment. I guess some could argue that it's being "updated" to deal with current events and issues, but I for one think the original film is still very relevant. In addition, it appears to be a story that elevates our care of the earth above the value of human life. I fervently believe that we humans have a very sacred responsibility to care and steward this earth as God would (and that we could be doing this a whole heck of a lot better than we do), but elevating the value of nature above human life is a misdirected way of approaching this responsibility. Perhaps if we addressed the problems portrayed in the original film (which also invited God-talk into the conversation), the solutions to the ones being addressed in the second would follow. Which again makes the original film all the more relevant.

Just a thought. But then perhaps I'm just cranky because I haven't seen the sun shine in what seems like a lifetime. Who knew Virigina resides under permanent cloud cover. Sigh.