Firstly, to the descriptions of the "side-story" of Voyagers:
Although these 30 people on the generation spaceship are already between 20 and 25 years old, they behave extremely naively. The bad ones among them have no morals. The reason for this naivety is, that these 30 people grew up in isolation from the rest of the world before starting their 80-year journey as teenagers. Only 5 among those 30 people have morality. The rest behave like cavemen. There's no other way to put it. Especially the psychopathic leader of the evil ones:
He is annoying and no fun to watch. His character is a mix of stupidity, being self-centred, narcissistic, manipulative, violent and without compassion or conscience. A typical psychopath - in paradise since it's not hard for him to get the majority of these naive people on his side. Even after it was revealed that he murdered Chief Colin Farrell. Their naivety is painful to watch!
Colin Farell was the only adult on the trip when they started, and after 10 years, this psychopath murdered him - for ridiculous reasons.
The mission became absurd after that. And they killed 2 more, also for ridiculous reasons.
When these people and their grandchildren one day arrive on the new planet and have to build a new world for the future of our species....humanity would fall back into slavery and dictatorship - there is no doubt about it.
The film "Voyagers" shows this very clearly. Therefore the filmmaker did well.
V v v Now to the main story, of what the movie is actually about:
Yes, it feels uncomfortable when we watch that group of people ignoring human rights. But that's how we should feel when we see injustice. Isn't it? That is the point and the message of the film.
Look: it took thousands of years of human history to learn from our mistakes and build a civilisation. Slowly, through wars, slavery, dictatorship and other terrible things, we learned to develop rules. And if an isolated group of people ignores these rules and rights, bad things will happen. Always. Like in that spaceship. It is even a scientifically proven fact:
There is another film with the same problem, like "The Experiment", which is based on a real event: It was a real psychological study at Stanford University in 1971. The paid participants became abusive and immoral within a few days, exposing others to punishment. They began to wage war and psychological terror inside the bunker>>> after being allowed to make their own rules. Before the experiment began, these 26 participants agreed to give up rules and basic human rights, and they signed for it.
The experiment had to be stopped prematurely to prevent further escalation of violence and abuse of power.
He is annoying and no fun to watch. His character is a mix of stupidity, being self-centred, narcissistic, manipulative, violent and without compassion or conscience. A typical psychopath - in paradise since it's not hard for him to get the majority of these naive people on his side. Even after it was revealed that he murdered Chief Colin Farrell. Their naivety is painful to watch!
Colin Farell was the only adult on the trip when they started, and after 10 years, this psychopath murdered him - for ridiculous reasons.
The mission became absurd after that. And they killed 2 more, also for ridiculous reasons.
When these people and their grandchildren one day arrive on the new planet and have to build a new world for the future of our species....humanity would fall back into slavery and dictatorship - there is no doubt about it.
The film "Voyagers" shows this very clearly. Therefore the filmmaker did well.
V v v Now to the main story, of what the movie is actually about:
Yes, it feels uncomfortable when we watch that group of people ignoring human rights. But that's how we should feel when we see injustice. Isn't it? That is the point and the message of the film.
Look: it took thousands of years of human history to learn from our mistakes and build a civilisation. Slowly, through wars, slavery, dictatorship and other terrible things, we learned to develop rules. And if an isolated group of people ignores these rules and rights, bad things will happen. Always. Like in that spaceship. It is even a scientifically proven fact:
There is another film with the same problem, like "The Experiment", which is based on a real event: It was a real psychological study at Stanford University in 1971. The paid participants became abusive and immoral within a few days, exposing others to punishment. They began to wage war and psychological terror inside the bunker>>> after being allowed to make their own rules. Before the experiment began, these 26 participants agreed to give up rules and basic human rights, and they signed for it.
The experiment had to be stopped prematurely to prevent further escalation of violence and abuse of power.