Sci-fi troupes

I don't really know why, but the thing in some sci-fi where the original colonists of a planet are worshiped as saints really does it for me. Religion in sci-fi is just cool in general, authors can take it so many interesting places. Anyone else have troupes/concepts they dig like that?

This movie is excellent, very /lit/, and it has these themes.

>>8806 It's worth mentioning... the disjointedness including scenes with no audio and interstitials with random unrelated street scenes in Poland with the director doing voice-overs to describe what you should be seeing at the time are the result of the production being interrupted by the communist government who thought the story was "subversive". Film industry in east bloc countries was funded and controlled by the state. So what looks like a quirky experimental approach is actually a patch up job done like a decade later. Somehow STILL a great film.

>>8807 It has great costumes, scenery and set, good acting, excellent writing..

Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds has a dose of colonist worship on one of the two key planets.

The Safehold series by David Weber takes this concept up to eleven: >humans find ayy lmaos >get utterly BTFO >a group of humans colonize a planet on the middle of nowhere to escape total genocide >they eschew all advanced technology in order to be undetectable >they create the catholic church on steroids to guarantee the ban on technology will be upheld >all the original leaders of the expedition become infallible saints >much later, the MC then tries to advance their civilization and sidestep the religious indoctrination

>>8806 I see your soviet film, and counter it with another: Hard to be a god >be astronauts >land on a planet >oh look it's earth, but in stuck in the middle ages >if only there were someone with superior knowledge and technology to lead them >what could possibly go wrong >turns out astronauts are humans too. I especially love how soviet sci-fi was often a thinly veiled social commentary in the form of art, but it delves into the human condition. It uses science and futurism as the medium unlike western scifi, where the science and futurism was often the subject of artistic expression and pure entertainment in a classic Hollywood fashion.