"Subtending this film is a satire of social hierarchy: the interplanetary explorers' stint at the Selenites' court mirrors the hierarchical structure depicted at the scientific congress, as Barbenfouillis presides over his scientific disciples, the power conferred upon him by his intellectual prowess as arbitrary and absurd as that invoked by the crustacean king. Le Voyage dans la lune ultimately shows that, rather than being safely out of this world, the differences encountered by the intrepid explorers were very close to home."
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Elizabeth Ezra, "Imaginary voyages," Ch. 4 of George Méliès (Manchester, U. K.: Manchester University Press, 2000), pp. 125–126.
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