Plenty of kids and parents are no doubt excited for the movie to make its big splash on American shores. But some should be warned that a movie that examines underwater worlds presents a temptation to Hollywood to preach about climate change that is too great for it to ignore.
“Aquaman” has plenty of climate-change preaching — an element that has weirdly become a staple in action movies in the last decade.
The film’s story involves Mamoa’s Arthur Curry, a man born to a queen from Atlantic, the underwater kingdom; and a Maine lighthouse keeper. The latter is recruited to stop his half-brother, King Orm (Patrick Wilson), who’s actively organizing the seven kingdoms of the sea to declare war on the surface world and the human race.
Why does Orm want to go to war with the land? He explains it plenty of times; it all has to do with wasteful humans overusing their resources and mistreating the Earth.
There’s lots of talk about pollution and littering — there’s even a slideshow of sorts that Orm reveals to his brother, in one of the film’s many soggy exposition scenes.
While points about climate change are not an aggressive driving force in “Aquaman,” they are a central part of the conflict.- READ MORE