rant · moment 4 of 24
The Sphere Movie's Population-Reduction Ending
from Twerk For Your Supper & The KHive | The Tim Dillon Show #403 · #403
3 min
Tim describes in detail the ending of Postcards from Earth, where the message seems to be that humanity must be reduced to restore balance, and compares it to the Obamas' Netflix film Leave the World Behind.
- Tim describes the film's opening message: civilization has destroyed itself through overconsumption, too many people, buildings blocking the sun.
- The irony of delivering an anti-consumerism message inside a Las Vegas hotel designed to look like Italy at the Sphere.
- The film's ending solution: achieving balance requires eliminating a significant number of people from the planet.
- The surviving characters sent to terraform another planet are cast as two non-white people, which Tim notes without commentary.
- The final message repeated in the film: "not all of us could go back" to Earth.