The Gods Must Be Crazy.

The movie shows the society of both the “Takers” and the “Leavers.” It shows that the Leavers don’t own anything in their society. They treat the trees as something that belongs to the Earth. They don’t own the trees even though they live with them. When they hunt, they would apologize and explain to the animals why they killed them. After they got the animal’s meat, they wouldn’t just throw the rest of the body away. They would use us the entire animal so nothing is wasted. For example, they not only ate the snakes but also used their skins to make tools or products. On the other side, it shows us the Takers’ society, which is how we live. The movie clearly shows the difference by having a leaver who enters the takers’ world. He did not understand the rules we have created. Because he didn’t understand the rules, the actions he made us, the audience who are also the takers, realize how much more difficult we are making our lives to be. All the tools from us were made due to the human’s needs. We need them and so we create them. We create them because we think they cam make our live a lot easier. In order to make the tools function, we started to set some rules. However, we never truly understand that in order to master those tools and follow the rules we need to study. Eventually, most of us would be “wasting” our lives by just following those rules.
In the movie, it shows us the different value from the Takers and the Leavers. It was similar to what Ishmael has pointed out, which is that Takers take more than what they needed just in case one day the gods decide it’s their turn to be gone so they will have foods to survive. What the Takers do is that they take the things from the Earth, store them, keep them as if they were “their” goods, and use them whenever they need to. From the movie, the main character had once gone into the Takers’ world. He saw a group of sheep, which were belong to a herder, eating grass. The bush-man's first reaction was to hunt one to satisfy his hunger. However, the herder then called the police and got his sheep back. The bush-man was confused because he thought he hunted it himself from the “natural world.” That is the difference between the Takers and the Leavers. Takers own things and the Leavers don’t. The bush-man even wanted to share the sheep he got to the police and the herder, because from hie belief, he believes that the sheep does not belong to anyone. The sheep’s meat can be eaten by anyone who was hungry and needed it.