For Your Consideration: “Chameleon”
We’ve become used to science fiction movies that transport us to adventures on new worlds at new frontiers, not so much epics as fables transposed onto the grand canvas of the universe. That’s not really a problem in the sense that such movies aren’t good: they are, after all, spectacular to behold, and such stories are able to paint with broad strokes grand ideas about morality and myth that resonate deeply but that would be hard to accept if set in a modern reality. What is often forgotten in the noise of those intergalactic epics, however, is that much of the very best science fiction is preoccupied with a different and no less important question: that of what it means to be human.
