Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Eternal Enemies

In the film, “Eternal Enemies” it is hard not to draw inferences on how human behavior exists. The film depicted that animals do not live in nature as harmoniously as animals do in The Lion King or Bambi. Instead, it is a viscous fight for preservation. As seen in the film, the hyenas and lions have an ongoing battle for food and territory. Both parties are willing to do whatever it takes to keep themselves alive; even killing the other if necessary. Darwin’s theories certainly applied in the film, only the fittest were able to reproduce and survive.
As for humans, we are not far different from the hyenas and lions. Both the lions and hyenas fight for food and territory; with humans, it has been seen throughout history that battles are fought over territory. However, when it comes down to it, certain territory just gives one group more resources than another. Which, it is completely understandable why animals would fight over territory. As for humans, we are fully capable of obtaining all the resources we would ever need. Therefore, the animals fight for territory is more justified than humans. For the lions and hyenas, territory is crucial for their survival. As for people, territory is not crucial for survival.
The inference that we should all make from this film is that for animals such as the lions and hyenas, violence is needed for self preservation; it is crucial to their survival. As humans, we are doing the same things that the lions and hyenas do, except it does not need to be done. Human preservation does not rely on violence or taking out another group. It should be seen that the human species could live cooperatively and harmoniously together.

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