'Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets' Draws Strong Parallels With Colonial Injustices

If it's simple enough for a comic book fantasy to show audiences, why should a well-educated electorate struggle?
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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

Besson projects his serious ideas into his imagined future with good humour and playful intelligence...

Besson breaks rules of physics, chromatics, anatomy, geometry, romance, and nationalism; in these things, his film is a pleasure.

The allegory of shameful colonial histories is surprisingly closely drawn throughout the film.