The Matrix Reflection

I highly enjoyed this film though I did felt it was bit too short like I wanted to see Neo actually go toe to toe with several agents and go further with some of the interesting concepts that were brought up earlier in the film. Though I know this is done in the sequels, I wished the film could felt like a stand alone film instead of a film that sets up sequels making the audience feel unfulfilled.

I think the main theme in this movie is what is reality and how our mind, soul, and sense of emotion like believing in is what makes us human. However during the discussion, it was brought up that technology might run our lives in a negative way. Personally I thought that took backseat of the theme what is reality in the same way that global warming took backseat to what makes us human in A.I meaning that though technology played a role in the back story of the movie, it was not the main theme of the movie.

Brazil Reflection

Out all of the films we've seen, this was the weakest. It didn't even feel like a science fiction film due to the fact to was too plausible to feel like science fiction. It just felt like a typical wacky British comedy However this film really did reflect our paperwork depended society, the post 9/11 fear of terrorism even though it was made in the 80's, and how technology is not as great as we think .
Though the film is supposed to be a black comedy and I do admit of laughing at a few parts in the film but over all it felt a lot like a forced comedy. For example, many of scenes that you were supposed to laugh at felt forced or out of place. Then again, this might be my personal taste issue. Other issues I had with the film include the inconsistent relationship between Sam and Jilayton. Over all, this film was a ok to me personally.

A.I: Artifcial Intelligence reflection

Out of all of the films that we have seen for this intersession, this is probably my favorite. This film does bring in the question what is being considered human as well as what makes us human. Personally think being human is having emotions, feelings, freewill, and desires. David despite being a robot had all of those traits. Despite him being programed to simply love, he develops other emotions over time as he experiences more things like sadness, happiness, anger, fear, and envy. What makes us human is our need to be unique and different. This is shown by David when he encounters the other David and sees boxes upon boxes of other Davids. He realizes he's just the first of a line of products which causes him to angered and sadden.

Blade Runner Reflection

I personally think other then the setting taking place in the future and the story revolving around illegal androids called "replicas". The story felt more like a detective or crime nor film rather then a science fiction film. The theme that were told to pay attention to in the film about what makes us human and what separates us from machines and animals wasn't felt in the film. Unlike other science fiction films that we watched, it didn't have much of lesson or warning to humanity. It just felt like a typical detective thriller that happened to take place in a sciecne fiction world.

Soylent Green Reflection

Though this movie was very good, it was really quite disturbing. Though the fact of the human race ruining low on food, water, and other natural resources and being forced to eat each other was disturbing, the most disturbing was how people in this world were practically hopeless. The scene that the frighten me the most was this,

Sol: [after reading the Soylent report] Good God!
Exchange Leader: What God, Mr. Roth? Where will we find him?

It goes to show show you just how utterly hopeless this world is especially for a person who believes in God (I'm one of those people). Would they rather consume people which is murdering or kill them self. According to them either way, they will go straight to Hell.

This film has a strong message that we should pay attention to what is happening with the world around us and we should take action now!

Planet of the Apes Reflection

Planet of the Apes was a reflection of human society of having a certain superior group treat a another group like animals or objects. How the apes treat the humans and them being afraid of them becoming as intelligent is a reflections of certain cultures in societies. It can be compared to how African Americans have treated in the United States for hundreds of years as well as how women have been treated in the Islamic world for thousands of years.

However the apes have a reason for their hate towards human. We find out at the end of the film that the planet of the apes is actually Earth and the humans destroyed their society by nuclear weapons which caused some areas of the planet to become lifeless desert. The apes believe that human's intelligence and violent nature caused them to use nuclear weapons thus almost destroying the planet. This belief causes them to try their best to restrain humans from learning so such a disaster won't happen again.

2001: A Space Odyssey

2001: A Space Odyssey is generally viewed as an anti-technology film due to way HAL-90000 acts in the film. HAL-9000 is computer for space shuttle in film that soon grows too intelligent for its own good to the point of killing crew memebers who he assuming are going to shut him down. However according to director Stanley Kubrick who highly supports advances in techology and said that HAL-9000 is supposed to represent techology being abused. This is supported when HAL comments that he can only make a flaw due to human error.

However human error isn't really abuse of techology since it was an accident. I still believe with the majority that HAL represents the horrors of techology becoming too advanced to the point where they can actually turn against us. However HAL-9000 can be looked at in a more positive light due to him showing more emotion then the actual people on the ship or in the world of 2001 in general. HAL believes that emotions help his work and that they should be embraced while it shown that people throughout history have tried their best to control emotions due it interfering as well as slowing down their work.

The film is about evolution and progess. In the beginning humans were primitive primates who were just learning that a bone can be used a weapon and millions of years later exlpore outer space. Also techology starts out as being a simple lifeless animal bone and millions of years later becomes a super advanced computer that is practally "human".

The Day the Earth Stood Still Reflection

One of things that struck me the most as well as made me think was Klaatu at the end of the film saying how his society works. In their society, the Universe is patrolled by robots similar to Gort and they have absolute control over the people in order to keep their society peaceful. At first, I thought that this was basically like totalitarianism having the robots basically overpowering the people by using their limitless power. If the robots went rogue, their creators would be powerless. However I looked back at Gort's actions in the film, he showed no emotions. agendas or any sense that he had "human" desires. He only kills when the life of the person he supposed to protected is threaten. The problem with giving such power to humans is that, they let human desires and feelings like greed, hate, and lust for power overcome them becoming insane with power. Also I thought more into the topic and remembered the Klaatu did not mention that they rule over them but protect them and use force only when their creators become violent. However, I believe nothing from this world should have that kind of unlimited power unless they have a way to stop them if in case an alien despot captures one and reprograms it for their own use. Then again with the robots having so much power, their creators would begin to feel that any kind of violence means complete annihilation. thus focusing on things that actually benefit society such as medicine and non warfare technology.


I agree with the film's message that actual intelligent minds should have more power over society then people who just have a lot of money due to them knowing what is best for their people. However, the people should have some influence in the government. In this film, the common people are generally viewed as ignorant, violent, fearful animals.This is sort of view that corporations (who shouldn't have as much power as they do)have on the common people as brainless, greedy, fearful monsters who are willing to believe anything. Though it is clearly pointed out that not all of characters are like and that once you understand more about them then they become different then what you previously believed.


In the end, I believe in the film message that violence is only necessary when another life is threaten and that we should not let petty political differences or human desires like money interfere with the safety of our planet and human race.