A Bug's Life Movie Analysis

The movie that I chose for this analysis is called A Bug’s life directed by John Lasseter and Andrew Stanton. This movie begins in a colony of ants that is by a tree. The ants are gathering food for the offering. The offering is when ants gather all the food they can before the season. This food is demanded by the Grasshoppers that are led by Hopper. They demand the food from the ants, because that is supposedly the payback they have to pay so that the grasshoppers will not hurt them. Princess Atta and the Queen led the colony and they have commanded the ants to get all the food they can for the Grasshoppers. On the other hand there is an ant that is different from all the other ants. His name was Flik. Flik was an inventor that invented a

grain harvesting device and a telescope. Flik was very different that is why all the ants did not like him. The ants thought he was special. Specially when Flick hit a rock that was holding the stone where the food was. It made the food fall and go into the stream. This made the Grasshoppers mad and demanded the ant colony to get twice the food they got before.
So, Flik had an Idea. Fliks plan was to recruit warrior bugs that specialized in fighting bugs like the grasshoppers. The princess and the queen agree to that idea, but not because they believe in Fliks plan but because they want to get rid of him. Flik then goes to the city to find those warriors. Flik then sees that a group of bugs are fighting with some flies. He sees that the group beat them up. Flik does not know that, that group of bugs are not warriors but they are circus bugs. Flik thinks that he found his warriors that is he offers them a job. The circus bugs did not even hesitate and they accepted the job. The circus bugs did not know that job involved killing, they thought the job was for a circus act. When the bugs arrived with Flik at the colony. Nobody believed that Flik was alive and that he brought warrior bugs to fight. When all the ants in the colony saw them, they decided to celebrate. They were happy that their saviors had arrive. When the circus bugs found out that they were there to fight the grasshoppers. They had no choice but to tell Flik that they were circus bugs, not warriors. Flik then tells them that he will think of a plan, so that they will not fight. So, Flick makes a plan and he tells his circus friends. The plan was to make an artificial bird and scare off the grasshoppers with it. Later that day, the ants find out that those warrior bugs are circus bugs. The ants become very disappointed with the circus bugs and Flik. The ants kick them out and Flik for, lying to them. So, then the ants start to gather food again for the grasshoppers. When the grasshoppers arrive, they get mad that the ants did not get the amount of food that they ask for. Then, an ant named Dot hears some grasshoppers that hopper will kill the queen. So, Dot goes out to find Flik. Dot tells Flik that she believes in him. Flik and his circus buddies, then went back to the ant colony to go helped them. They used the bird to scare of the grasshoppers, but then the bird got burned. So, then hopper got Flik and tried to kill him, but unfortunately he was the one that got killed by a bird. Hopper thought that the bird was artificial, but when he realized it was not ,it was to late.
This movie called A bug’s life has a lot of Macroeconomics. The first thing I see is GDP. The example that I’m going to use is Mexico City. Since, we see Flik leaving the colony to find those warrior bugs, we can compare with the immigrants that try to cross the border. Flik went to the city to find those warrior bugs, he wanted to find hope. His hope was the warrior bugs. Hope is the reason why immigrants cross the border. Since, in Mexico there are no jobs, people have to cross the border to come into the United States. The United States of America is there hope for jobs. The people that cross the border have to make themselves be warrior bugs. Going to another country is not easy,specially if you do not know anyone or know their language. You have to be a true warrior to go into an unknown place. Immigrants do not have a choice, specially if they have a family and they do not have a job. They must travel to an unknown world, that they have never seen. They know they might not come back from that journey or they might die, but they do not care because they have a family to maintain. This is just like the adventure Flik decided to do. Flik knew, what he was doing was suicidal. He knew that he might die in that big world. Flik still did not care, he rather sacrifice himself then not try. Flik cared about the colony, but the colony did not care about him. Flik wanted to make a difference for the colony and the colony did not see that.
Flik wanted to stop the fear that the ant colony had against the grasshoppers.

He did not like that the ant colony had to work for the grasshoppers. He did not like that the Grasshoppers did not even do anything to earned that food. They did not even trade something for the food. Flik was tired of all that mistreat. This is an example, how some governments treat their nation with disrespect. The government at the end has prices of anything to have inflation. They want to control the consumer. They want to control, what the consumer buys and not to buy. The government wants the people to think that they need them to survive, but at the end it’s the government that needs the nation to survive. The government does not want people to think, if they start to think. The people start to ask questions, and if those questions are not answered, they start to rebel. The government can not afford that to happened, because who are they going to control now. Without the people, the government is nothing. This is just like in the scene of the movie A Bug’s Life. Flik says to Hopper, “these ants do not owe you anything’’, “We do not need you Hopper, and you know that.” After that, Hopper knew that he was in trouble. He should of made a fair agreement with the ants, but he decided that he wanted to control them. That was Hopper’s mistake.

We must learned from this mistake, that we should never be selfish. Hopper just wanted power and that’s what destroyed him. He should of made an agreement with the ants. We should also learned from Flik, that we must always stand for what we believe in. Flik stood up to hopper and save the colony. We as humans should do the same and stand up for what we believe in. We cannot let ourselves be controlled by other people. We must do what we want. We cannot let our friends, family or neighbors tell us who to be, because if we do what they say to do. Then,who will be

you.