According to Booker, the film also "delivers a rather segregationist moral" by concluding with the discovery of the Atlanteans kept secret from other surface-dwellers in order to maintain a separation between the two highly divergent cultures.
Fandens de imperialister!" i følge Booker, levere filmen også en mere "kønsdiskriminerende moral" ved at konkludere med opdagelsen af atlantikerne holdt hemmelighed fra andre overflade-beboer for at en separation mellem de to meget forskellige kulture.