Bright: The State of the World

In this blog post I will be talking about the Netflix Original, Bright. Bright is set in an alternate universe where fantasy creatures, such as orcs, fairies, and elves, actually exist. Even though it branded itself as a buddy cop movie, it is much more than that. Bright deals with race and a the pregadis that comes with it. In the movie orcs are looked as less than. They make up almost all of the underclass people. They also account for more that half of the crime that happens in Los Angeles where this movie takes place. The humans and the elves are make up the upper and middle classes. The elves run the government and the banks so they make up almost all of the upper class with some humans thrown in the mix.


Bright follows Officers Wand and Jakoby. Jokoby just so happens to be the first orc police officer ever. His partner Ward, played by Will Smith, is a veteran who has just come back from leave after being shotgunned in the street. It begins as a call to a rough part of town on a trauma call. In their investigation of the house they find that there is a wand there and a Bright that can wield it. A bright is the only people in the world that can use a magic wand and control it. If any one else touched a wand they explode. With this wand they find an elvish bright that is being chased by other magic users. The other magic users are trying to bring back The Dark Lord, who is a magic being of pure evil. They need the elf, Tikka, because three wands are needed to bring him back from the dead. A chacs insuses for the rest of the movie in order for to protect the wand for the evil that searches for it.


Throughout the movie the relationship between Ward and Jakoby is tested. Near the climax of the movie, the two cops encounter the Fogtooth gang. The Fogtooths are an orcish gang and they take the tow officers and the elf and while Ward and Jakoby are beaten and interrogated Tikka has to watch. The biggest highlight in this sequence is when Jakoby is killed, but Tikka resurrect him fulfilling an orcish prophecy, so they are let go.





This movie gives a suttle hints of the state of the world in real life. People today hold grudges against one another and it has thrown the world into chaos. This movie directly correlates with an idea. The ideas that forgiveness is the only way for the state of the world to improve.