Arnel Francis

“We can change”-was the favorite upsetting liner used in the movie “The Day the Earth Stood Still” which showed the condemning nature of man to bargain- an offshoot of his selfishness and an exhibit of his delaying tactics of accepting retributions. An embrace of sci-fi cum philosophical lash was what made “The Day the Earth Stood Still” an unlooked for upturn of current movie trends. It blared the idea clearly that “we don’t own this planet”. For truly an equating adage that says the “Earth doesn’t need us humans!” We never were PROTECTORS of it in the first place. Just like the biblical rebirth of the Earth, the great ark was brought to fruition in the movie by a cosmic intervention telling us that we don’t own THIS PLANET and that any decision is not within our grip. Unaware that its toll maybe the great Noah’s ark in disguise, global climate change, escalating biodiversity loss and population growth, natural calamities and even wars, continually ally our paths into sieving out the