Fantastic Voyage

[YankeyMCC]

I haven't watched Fantastic Voyage in many many years. I guess I'm more aware of bias against atheists these days because I just noticed something as I sit here watching it.

The character of Dr Michaels (the bad guy) is an atheist and this is pointed out when the "genius" Dr Duval debates him about the "miracle" of life (or rather the processes of life inside the body).

"Surely you can't believe this (the exchange of CO2 and O2) is an accident!" Duval says to Michaels.

The movie was made in 1966 so I guess it is just a symptom of the cold war and the fight against "godless communists" but it's still disappointing.

[fshrink]

1. Interesting parallel indeed.

And instead of the bad communists, we now have the completely arrierated concept of "evil". The "evil" in question having a rather large racist twinge as well. So we had then a well-defined nemesis, with a real country, officials, identifiable objects and we now have a vague, primal fear, elusive enough to be tailored at will to the measure of the homonculi who lead us. We are in a fuzzy cold war. And it looks like it's even worse/