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On some other DU thread discussing this movie, comments were made about the need for 5000 or so survivors in order to make a sustainable re-population effort. But, note the median age of all the people wandering out of the pods.

The fact that they all seemed well above reproductive age is an indictment by the story tellers of all the powerful older--hell, let's just call them aged--politicos who are passing legislation that either favors their immediate interests and/or ignores the needs of the people who will be living in a future shaped by the policies they establish.

In the movie, time, money and resources were lavished on a project to ensure the survival of a bunch of people who might not have lived more than a decade and a half longer under normal circumstances. No real effort was made to save a planet filled with young people looking to experience all the normal joys and sorrows that their elders knew in their time. That is exactly what Greta and her age-mates are trying to tell us.

Another minor thought that came to me was after Merle Streep's character calmly walked up to a seemingly harmless creature with an attitude of mild curiosity. What happened was sort of like the opposite of what happened when European explorers encountered the dodo. Sometimes, a little fear and suspicion is a good thing.