"Coming to wipe that silly face off your planet."
A recommendation from Netflix and a weird smiley face led me to watch Evolution the other night. The title suggested it would be horribly offensive to someone with a Christian worldview, while the disarming smiley face suggested it was simply a comedy. It WAS simply a comedy.
The basic premise of this movie is: what if a meteor from outer space crashed on earth carrying microorganisms that evolved about a million times faster than we do? Obviously they take evolution for granted at this point, but they had fun playing with the idea. Since evolution is all about adapting and survival of the fittest, these aliens quickly become a problem for all as they begin to assert their dominance over us silly humans. Oh, and they're nitrogen-based (whereas we're carbon-based) so that has some important implications as well.
This movie definitely carries evolutionist ideology with it, but it doesn't strongly push it down the audience's collective throat. It's more used as a foundation to work from, not a point to prove. Not exactly what I was expected, but the movie, though cheesy at times, was fairly entertaining. Of course, evolution is false, but denying it isn't nearly as fun when making a movie about aliens taking over the planet.
And yes, that smiley face only appears on the box as a promotion device to catch your attention. It's no Ghostbuster insignia used throughout the movie to exemplify a cause.
It seems to me that this movie you described (I can't say I've ever watched it) has the potential to be misleading, simply because the ideology is taken for granted and comes with the movie, a wholesale package ready to be passively viewed and absorbed.
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