Vienna Eliot wrote:USS Monitor wrote:snip
At first I thought the 14 minutes dedicated to the Galactic Senate's debate on the Equal Rights Amendment was jarring and out of place with the flow of the film, but after five consecutive viewings I understood what the director was going for.
Regardless, my two paragraphs were unrelated. But I still contend that some things don't need to be explored, or even known by the author. If the characters of the story aren't intimately connected to why Mars is rebelling, then it doesn't matter. The speaker of Zombie by the Cranberries doesn't care about the politics of the Troubles. She cares that children are being murdered. Sometimes it just doesn't matter.
And the lyrics of "Zombie" wouldn't be particularly interesting as a story, if people weren't listening to it for the music. Unless Pax is planning to set his story to music, you're comparing apples and oranges.
I don't care for it even with the music, but that's a matter of personal taste.