First, the film sets the era in the modern era, not the seventeenth century in the novel. But the situation in Lilliput is the same as in England in the seventeenth century.
This is the difference between the two Gullivers. Gulliver brings a lot of modern knowledge into the film, which inevitably makes people look down on the ancient Lilliput. It's not that Gulliver and Lilliput are "equal" in the novel, this is the limitation of Gulliver in the novel, and it is this limitation that makes Gulliver's trip to Lilliput full of irony.
The film focuses on Gulliver's modern thinking on the shaping of Lilliput, such as Gulliver's plagiarism of other films and music to create a joke. At most, Gulliver would say, "We are a democracy." This is just to pave the way for Gulliver to lie that he is the president.
This also makes the novel describe the ambition of the king of Lilliputian. The war between the two countries wants to defeat and enslave each other. In order to be promoted, officials have to jump rope to please the king even if they have broken hands and legs, and even the price of death, to satirize The satirical soul of Britain at the time was not reflected in the film at all.
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