Themes Of Coexism In I Am By Tom Shadyac

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In Tom Shadyac’s movie, I Am, two general themes are portrayed again and again. That is what is wrong with the world and that and that cooperation is the key to success in our society. We all must learn to coexist or our society will fail and die off. The order of the universe has always been random and a chaotic mess from the moment the Big Bang started. Only in the last few hundred years has the human race learned how to coexist and thrive. It has no longer been a battle of the fittest but a cooperative effort to race to the finish. As Shadyac points out, the world faces so many issues but is also connected in many ways and could use this to help minimize our growing issues at hand. The human races would understand the principles of coexistence …show more content…

It was quickly corrupted by the greed of one greatest hunters, who took too much meat for himself and began to store it away from the others. Once the other tribe members took notice of that, the other great hunters started to mimic his actions. After the greed started to take over the tribe, some members had more than what they needed and some had hardly anything. The old and young started to die off very quickly. Soon chaos ensued around the entire tribe about how much they should each get, instead of equally splitting the bounty between all of the …show more content…

Our actions leave impressions on other people’s lives every day. If we could all work together we could knock out many problems that plague impoverished countries every day; like famine and war. When we do not interact in a positive loving way chaos, fighting, and war breaks out. If the human race as a whole does not learn how to cooperate and take only as much as we need, our lives as we know them could fall apart. We see it constantly repeated in early civilization what happens when a society takes too much; they all crumble as a result of greed and

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