Has anyone ever seen the movie "Enemy Mine" starring Dennis Quaid and Louis Gossette, Jr.?
The movie, though great Sci-Fi, is also laced with Christian overtones of brotherly love, compassion, and forgiveness.
Plot Summary:
It is the 21st century. In the midst of an interstellar war between Humans and Dracs (reptilian-like aliens), human pilot Willis Davidge (Quaid) and Drac pilot Jeriba "Jerry" Shigan (Gossett), engage in a spacecraft battle resulting in both crashlanding on Fyrine IV, an alien world with oxygen atmosphere, water, and dangerous but nutritious animal life.
After initial hostilities, the two eventually learn to cooperate in order to survive. They work together to build a shelter, a carapace house, against the near-constant bombardment by meteorites, and to satisfy their needs for food, water, and warmth. They learn to overcome their differences, become friends, and learn each other's languages and cultures.
Later, facing expected death and with child, Jeriba teaches Davidge his full ancestry, a necessity if his child is to be accepted into Drac society. Davidge raises the child Zammis as his own. When Zammis is enslaved by criminal humans, he is rescued by Davidge, other enslaved Dracs, and Davidge's fellow military personnel in an emotional climax wherein the two races are confronted with their shared positive traits. "This war, as all wars, ends."
In the epilogue, Davidge and Zammis return to the Drac homeworld. Davidge recounts the ancestry before the Holy Council in the traditional ritual, and the audience learns that Davidge's family name is added to the lineage.
The movie, though great Sci-Fi, is also laced with Christian overtones of brotherly love, compassion, and forgiveness.
Plot Summary:
It is the 21st century. In the midst of an interstellar war between Humans and Dracs (reptilian-like aliens), human pilot Willis Davidge (Quaid) and Drac pilot Jeriba "Jerry" Shigan (Gossett), engage in a spacecraft battle resulting in both crashlanding on Fyrine IV, an alien world with oxygen atmosphere, water, and dangerous but nutritious animal life.
After initial hostilities, the two eventually learn to cooperate in order to survive. They work together to build a shelter, a carapace house, against the near-constant bombardment by meteorites, and to satisfy their needs for food, water, and warmth. They learn to overcome their differences, become friends, and learn each other's languages and cultures.
Later, facing expected death and with child, Jeriba teaches Davidge his full ancestry, a necessity if his child is to be accepted into Drac society. Davidge raises the child Zammis as his own. When Zammis is enslaved by criminal humans, he is rescued by Davidge, other enslaved Dracs, and Davidge's fellow military personnel in an emotional climax wherein the two races are confronted with their shared positive traits. "This war, as all wars, ends."
In the epilogue, Davidge and Zammis return to the Drac homeworld. Davidge recounts the ancestry before the Holy Council in the traditional ritual, and the audience learns that Davidge's family name is added to the lineage.
