Sure. The movie is very much about the refugiee crisis (despite the fact they iirc never say refugiee, which kind of bugged me), while the original comic was not, being from the 1970s. The theme of the comic that really stuck with me was, in essence, "just because you're sorry doesn't mean people owe you forgiveness" and it's also about how Earth/Humanity is just a small part of a wide and varied universe, not the center of it.
I think a good way to illustrate the difference between the two is the opening scene from the movie. It starts of with the Apollo-Soyuz docking, then jumps to iirc 2020 with a Chinese module docking onto the ISS, then more and more Earth countries docking/attaching to the Station, until an alien spaceship shows up and attaches as well. Then more aliens! Then they detach "Alpha" from Earth orbit and set it adrift to explore space. This is all dialogue-less, set to Bowie's Space Oddity. It's a lovely scene.
Unfortunately, it's also antithetical to the comic. As is the fact they have super detailed maps in the movie -- the comic explicitly says no one has a complete map of Point Central. It's too big. In the comic, the equivalent of Alpha, Point Central, does not originate from Earth. Hell, Earth is one of very newest species/planets aboard (and they get kicked out over the course of the comic, because they done fucked up). Idk, that really stuck with me when I read it (I was, like, 6).
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Sure. The movie is very much about the refugiee crisis (despite the fact they iirc never say refugiee, which kind of bugged me), while the original comic was not, being from the 1970s. The theme of the comic that really stuck with me was, in essence, "just because you're sorry doesn't mean people owe you forgiveness" and it's also about how Earth/Humanity is just a small part of a wide and varied universe, not the center of it.
I think a good way to illustrate the difference between the two is the opening scene from the movie. It starts of with the Apollo-Soyuz docking, then jumps to iirc 2020 with a Chinese module docking onto the ISS, then more and more Earth countries docking/attaching to the Station, until an alien spaceship shows up and attaches as well. Then more aliens! Then they detach "Alpha" from Earth orbit and set it adrift to explore space. This is all dialogue-less, set to Bowie's Space Oddity. It's a lovely scene.
Unfortunately, it's also antithetical to the comic. As is the fact they have super detailed maps in the movie -- the comic explicitly says no one has a complete map of Point Central. It's too big. In the comic, the equivalent of Alpha, Point Central, does not originate from Earth. Hell, Earth is one of very newest species/planets aboard (and they get kicked out over the course of the comic, because they done fucked up). Idk, that really stuck with me when I read it (I was, like, 6).
Does that make sense?