{"id":19014,"date":"2013-11-10T10:38:42","date_gmt":"2013-11-10T15:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=19014"},"modified":"2013-11-10T10:38:42","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T15:38:42","slug":"enders-game-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/11\/enders-game-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Ender's Game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"\"<\/a>Yesterday I got to see the movie Ender\u2019s Game<\/em>. Although quite a bit had to be left out in order to make the story into a regular feature-length film, I felt that what was depicted was fairly true to the original, or at least in keeping with it. The visual effects were impressive and brought to life \u2013 and up to date \u2013 the things that the novel itself got us to imagine. There are spoilers<\/a> in what follows.<\/p>\n

I liked that Ender articulated so directly his response to Col. Graff\u2019s statement that humanity\u2019s winning was what matters. Ender suggested rather that \u201cHow we win matters.\u201d<\/p>\n

There was no direct exploration of religion in the film, but there were hints not only in Alai\u2019s saying \u201cassalamu alaikum\u201d and in Mazer Rackham\u2019s statement that he had Maori markings on his face because his father was Maori and this allowed him to \u201cspeak for the dead\u201d \u2013 a nod to the role that Ender himself takes on in the novel and its sequels.<\/p>\n

Of the things that were cut, the omission of the regret of the Formic queen expressed at the end was what I regretted most. It emphasized more clearly that these \u201cbuggers\u201d were sentient beings and that Ender saving the species was not merely an expression of his regret, but a result of a very difficult but ultimately successful communication between two species each of which found it hard to believe that there was anything genuinely sentient and worth preserving in the other.<\/p>\n

If you saw the movie, did you enjoy it, and how did you feel it rendered the novel upon which it was based?<\/p>\n

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