Racism and materialism are pre-set in humans. In the film called “Enemy Mine,” our main character named Willis Davidge is a pilot for the Bilateral Terran Alliance also known as BTA, that hunts dracs and has a strong prejudice against them. His journey would start as someone who has a lot of hatred towards the dracs and as the story would progress his views towards them would slowly change. The film greatly portrays the current situation of many African American people who are suffering from prejudice, shows how humans treat others who are not different from them, how human greed could get, and how the two characters would overcome them. First, the story would explain the prejudice that the dracs were encountering. For example, Willis Davidge …show more content…
For example, Davidge tries to assault Jerry even though he did help him, slurring at him in many dialogues, and mistreating him as if he was someone who has done terrible things. The film depicts how White Americans mistreat African Americans based on their color. It’s historically accurate how slaves were treated even after slavery they still have to face such circumstances. The dracs were forced to work in poor working conditions as humans felt no empathy towards them as they were completely different from them. In summary, the dracs that were mistreated in the story base on their kind is the representation of people of color as they were being treated differently because of their …show more content…
To start, both Davidge and Jerry remove their prejudice against each other as it would hinder their progress to escape from planet Fryine IV. It’s very hard and complex as their hatred was solid and as the story progresses it would only end when they have slowly built an interaction where they realize what they’ve been told was not the truth. Second, Davidge must accept to treat dracs the same as their only difference was their unique look. He realizes this when Jerry saved him from a giant monster, he is puzzled as to why would Jerry help him even though he did terrible things to him, yet he was courageous to help him. From then on, he treated Jerry with care. Lastly, fending off human greed. This takes place when Jerry already died and had a son named Zammis. Zammis was kidnap and forced to work on a mine where he was later captured and placed in a metal compartment where Davidge have to save him. He did and everyone was touched by their journey, later, humans and dracs would come to a treaty and become