... Poole gets a recorded birthday message from his parents. The scene has no music in the background, not setting up what is supposed to be a happy occasion. These scenes display how the idea of life isn't celebrated with full vitality as it once was, de-humanizing the concept in a ... environment. It is seen as merely an obligated past time, losing its genuineness over the course of time. This contrasts the beginning of the movie, where the birth of a civilization was a monumental event, full of energetic movement and sound, as well music when the bone was discovered as a tool. Dynamic emo...

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