Bee Movie = Imperialism

(cause I thought it would've been funny)

Friday, 10.02.2017

CHARACTERS
Barry B. Benson = Tribal Chief
Vanessa Bloome = Civil Rights Activists (Hippies)
Pretty Much the Entire Bee Population = Natives peoples
Humans = European settlers

Comparisons
1. The idea of the humans taking the bees honey and thinking it to be a fair trade.
(Honey for an artificial hive). Can be compared to how the europeans originally
thought trading fur for firearms was fair ( which it was)
2. The humans abusing the bees by gassing, can be seen as the europeans putting the
indian act into place. Given that both situations couldve been avoided by just talking
to each other.
3. The court scene couldve been identified as how the europeans thought of the
Indigenous People as savages that solve all through violence.
4. The bees having one occupation for their whole lives can be seen as the cycle of
poverty in reserves and how they dont get enough income to move beyond the
hive/reserve.
5. The fact that an entire bees life comes down to making honey. Much like how a
resident of a reserve comes down to making enough to move out of the reserve.
6. The idea of choosing bees to represent the Indigenous people is a motif to
Europeans seeing the Indigenous as animals.
7. The scene in which Allan (Barrys best friend) stung Mr.Montgomery is
symbolic to how fighting back hurt the indigenous more than the Europeans.
8. The bees needing the flowers and the humans wanting them is symbolic to the good
and services in early day Canada being needed by the Indigenous people and
wanted by the Europeans.
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Analysis
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The bee movie takes a look into the Idea of What does It mean to have equal
peace? From Barrys perspective equality isnt quite as important as peace, which is then
flipped on reverse by Vanessa, who favours peace over equality. For Barry, Equality
between humans and bees means seclusion from each other. But for Vanessa it means
working together as co-operatives or partners, she realizes that humans plant flowers for
bees to pollinate, and bees pollinate so humans can have food and more plants, thus
meaning they need each other.

Barry sees that honey is what gives bees their motive to keep going. And humans
selfishly take it from them without a thought, thus bringing upon a sense of dis-equality
and a blend between anger and sad devastation. Only when barrys goals are achieved
does he realize that with bees having all they want theyll become lazy and just as devoid of
meaning as if they were to have nothing. like Charles Dickens once said It was the best of
times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of
belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the
spring of hope, it was the winter of despair Which accurately described how the bees felt, they
were at their prime and yet they were at their lowest, they were purposefully forced into a
series of positive flaws. Now as for the humans they felt as though the lack of bees had a
greater impact than they anticipated, where the bees were having an economic boom the
humans were what would appear to be a drought. Humans had to depend on bees just as
much if not more than the bees depended on them. ( Thats not opinion thats fact.)

All in all, be movie takes an in depth look into the ideals of Peace, equality & their
opposites.

Final word

According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way

that a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small

to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of
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course, flies anyways. Because bees don't care what

humans think is impossible.