The movie “The Fifth Element” is about the appearance of evil in
millions of years and the one weapon that can destroy it which is the fifth
element and a woman. Through the movie this evil entity appears and a priest is
quick to comprehend that the time has come to destroy evil by the creation of
the weapon composed of the fifth element”. However, evil has its helpers that
intend to not let the weapon be created. The fifth element, by a miracle
survives the attack on the spaceship that was brining her to earth in order to
save the human specie. But she doesn’t trust in the people surrounding her and
so runs away to meet a taxi driver that used to be in the military but has
retired. The taxi driver brings the fifth element to the priest and together
they embark on a journey to save the world for Evil itself by surpassing some
obstacles. In the end, the world is saved and the fifth element and the taxi
driver fall in love.
The movie is sci-fi because of its elements of technology in it.
Such as the space ships used, the existence of flying cars, Martians, etc.
However, the existence of Evil and the Fifth element are not necessary
explained by science. The movie is quite entreating and funny, due to Ruby Rhod
who is played by Chris Tucker. I liked the movie but I thought that the fifth
element shouldn’t have been a woman especially a woman that falls in love with
the other protagonist, for this makes the movie predictable and it becomes a
cliché. There is one moment in the movie, when they were about to save the
earth, that the fifth element learns about all the wars and the horrors done by
mankind that she starts to wonder if mankind is worth saving. At the end she
decides it is worth because of love, such as the one of hers and the taxi
driver. This moment is very important because it can leave the viewer wondering
about all the horrors and the beauty in the world; making him/her realize that
mankind, as everything else, is simply a clarooscuro in which light sometimes
overcomes dark and vice-versa. And that
it is up to man to generate light as to overcome that darkness.
