given today's post-modern mindset, where everything is deemed chaotic and art is meant to simply resonate the chaos all around us, the movie typifies/embodies a pseudo-existential notion that there is no meaning to be had in anything, particularly a person, place, or event; e.g. the person is John Travolta, a JC figure of staggering proportions of late, considering his come-back, the place is the Hubbard Fictional Universe, now further desecrated, and the event is the movie BATTLEFIELD EARTH itself, considering the bombardment of hype from Hollywood theaters and the inevitable let-down. So BATTLEFIELD EARTH is Modernity's child.
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given today's post-modern mindset, where everything is deemed chaotic and art is meant to simply resonate the chaos all around us, the movie typifies/embodies a pseudo-existential notion that there is no meaning to be had in anything, particularly a person, place, or event; e.g. the person is John Travolta, a JC figure of staggering proportions of late, considering his come-back, the place is the Hubbard Fictional Universe, now further desecrated, and the event is the movie BATTLEFIELD EARTH itself, considering the bombardment of hype from Hollywood theaters and the inevitable let-down. So BATTLEFIELD EARTH is Modernity's child.