Here is a very good short Sci Fi Movie
A really thought provoking Sci Fi Future movie, as far as the possibility of another planet and how they would control the immigration to it.
https://youtu.be/zZJ94q01LNg
https://youtu.be/zZJ94q01LNg
SOURCE URL: https://youtu.be/zZJ94q01LNg
While the acting in this film is surprisingly good, and the special effects very professional, the idea of lethal control of immigration is primitive, and doesn't fit with a society advanced enough to reach other livable planets. Thanks to the coming invasion of our personal space and minds by information systems, it's more likely control will be enforced (if necessary) by more subtle means.
The disappointing thought is that this story may be intended as a condemnation of national border control efforts today. Empathy for the displaced or subjugated should not be a call for national suicide, so I hope that was not the intent of the producers.
I'd understand the statists not wanting to lose the rich who pay taxes, but what is the motivation to stop people smugglers from taking the poor and petty criminals to the new, empty Australia where there is a need for cheap labor ?
(I have not watched the movie yet, so it may be explained therein;^)
You cannot make a worthless story into a great story by endowing it with senseless photography no matter how well done.
Really, not all stories appeal to everyone. I liked the premise, and the short film treatment of just one idea, and how something that is often portrayed in mainstream Sci Fi as like the old west (just go west, young man) could really be "No tickee, no payee".
I also question why the government would fight against the smugglers. Unless they had worked out some kind of tax deal with those privileged to go. Still, I remember that our own State of Georgia began as a penal resettlement colony, similar to Australia.