SCI-FI MOVIE; ENDER'S GAME

I worked with Photoshop to make GIF images from a sci-fi movie of my choosing. I chose Ender's game as my subject.

                    

Ender's game, directed by Gavin Hood is adapted after the science fiction military novel by American author Orson Scott Card. It tells of a somewhat dystopian reality where humans are first attacked by an alien race called the Formics, the humans win due to an intelligent soldier who thinks to destroy the mother ship, thereby sacrificing his life to stop the invasion. The loss and casualties of the first war causes humans to advance their technology and also raise genetically intellect mutated kids to be in their army. They then take the war to the Formics. The progression of the story centers around Ender and his siblings and his journey on becoming the greatest military strategist and savior of earth.

 Earth's military deceives Ender he is playing a simulation of the final war on the Formics unwittingly making him commits mass genocide and destroys the Formics home world. Enders personality is highly empathetic, in a scene from the movie he tells valentine, "In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves."  This scene alludes to Ender being torn up about killing off a species but Ender is able to communicate with a Formic Queen and promises to take the queen egg to an empty planet to restart Formic civilization.  

I like how the movie first introduces Formics as an alien evil species and mankind as the victim but as the story progresses its starts to paint a portrait where all things aren't black or white and explains how the Formics only came to earth because their overpopulation was bringing about the extinction of their species forcing us to see that in as much as humans are acting out of self-preservation so are the Formics making it harder to tell the bad guy at the end of the movie. Ender is a strong character who allows you to see the story from an empathetic and lens.  I greatly enjoyed the visual aspects of the movie as the producers where able to bring to life a CGI masterpiece with remarkable representations of space and topnotch special effects. 

Reference 

• https://enderverse.fandom.com/wiki/Andrew_Wiggin