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When Worlds Collide (1951)
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It's been a while since I've seen a film that's blatantly racist.
When Worlds Collide falls under this category. Apparently a product of its time, it's unacceptable and
offensive today and is a prime example of eugenics. From start to finish, save for the United Nations meeting, I count not
one single black, Latin, or Asian person. Nor do I see anyone with disabilities or obesity. The selected forty consist of
perfectly able white males and females.
So, I guess the underlying goal of the so-called New World Order is to make it as white and Christian as possible. Well,
they've succeeded at it in When Worlds Collide. Some people might think of my statements as trivial, but they aren't.
Diversity is embraced because people all over the world come from different cultural and ethnic groups, and not one of them
is superior to the other. This is the most important aspect in understanding humanity.
Hypothetically speaking, if the worlds were to collide today, I'm pretty sure the rich folks—the richer they are,
the better their chances are—along with their trophy wives are going on the trip while the rest of everybody else is
discarded because they're simply not rich or desirable. Such how life works out.
Finally, I refuse to believe it's that facile for the spaceship as shown in the film to succeed and for the people to be
able to survive on another planet. The reason why Earth is unique is that it took billions of years of evolution to create
a set of survivable conditions to allow the organisms to thrive. Just to throw it all away and start anew on another planet is
impossible because their bodies will not survive given the different makeup of the atmosphere.
Meanwhile, When Worlds Collide won the Oscar for special effects which are laughably bad. Slap my face...any second
grader can do the same thing. The brown uniforms worn by the selected forty humorously remind me of the Heaven's Gate cult
group; is that where its insane leader got the idea from? As for the ineffable romance between the girl and the village idiot
pilot, what can she possibly see in him that the medical doctor doesn't have? Who cares if he's going on the trip or not? Really, I
could care less, and of course! He was going on the trip after all; he was just being melodramatic, so everybody could pay
attention to his fake needs.
All in all, When Worlds Collide is eugenics at its finest.