The Fifth Element: Sacrific One, Save Billions

     The Fifth Elementis a 1990s movie with great visual and political images that give a great example of how society may be in the future.

     In 1914, the extraterrestrials known as Mondoshawans arrive at an ancient Egyptian temple and collect the only weapon capable of defeating the Great Evil which appears every five thousand years. The weapon consists of four stones, representing the four elements, and a sarcophagus that contains a Fifth Element in the form of a human, which combines the power of the other four elements into a "Divine Light" that can stop the Great Evil. They give a key to their human contact, a priest, and instruct him to pass it on to future generations.

     In 2263, the Great Evil appears in the form of a giant ball of black fire and destroys a terrestrial battleship. As the Mondoshawans return to Earth, they are ambushed by the shape-shifting Mangalores, hired by the industrialist Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg who was hired by the Great Evil itself to dispose of the element stones. The Mondoshawan's spacecraft is destroyed and the only thing Earth scientists could recover was the hand of the Fifth Element, which they use to create a humanoid woman, known as "Leeloo". Terrified of her unfamiliar surroundings, she escapes and jumps off a ledge to land in the flying taxicab of Korben Dallas, a former major in the special forces.

Dallas delivers Leeloo to the current priest of the Mondoshawan key, Vito Cornelius and his apprentice, David, whereupon Cornelius learns that the four Element stones were entrusted to Diva Plavalaguna, an opera singer. Because the Mangalores failed to obtain the stones, Zorg kills them, but their compatriots attempt to obtain the Elements for themselves. General Munro, Dallas' former superior, re-enlists Dallas and orders him to travel undercover, as a radio contest winner, to meet the Diva on a luxury cruise in space. The publicity of the contest attracts the Mangalores and Zorg to the space liner as well. Dallas takes Leeloo with him, while Cornelius instructs David to prepare the temple and stows away aboard the vessel.

      This movie has tons of visuals, some of the scenes have lots of futuristic machines, weapons and even has aliens. Society has had the ability to make contact with aliens and now live together in harmony. Society seems organized and everyone seems to understand what they have to do and what they can and can not do. People seem to have there own religions and even adopted the religions of alien species and with that are afraid of the larger threat that wants to destroy the entire race. 
     The main issue is that one woman is the last element  that needs to be sacrificed in order to save the society. The problem is that the main character can not decide whether he wants to sacrifice the one he love or save the the world. Could any normal person be able to accept the fact that sacrificing a human life and be ok with that? Or would a mans emotions get the best of him and not do it? Movie unfortunately put a person in that kind of scenario and capture that emotional impact of the character in in a deep struggle.
      The Fifth Element has amazing visuals and an interesting plot that can both inspire and attract people to its glory. With a large enough budget anyone can make a film that can look as cool as this one.