Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Reaction Paper: The Fly (1958)




The film was about an experiment gone wrong. A breakthrough that could have changed the lifestyle of mankind if it were a success. It was about how an inventor created a teleporter with it successfully transporting the content to another tube, and also successfully mixing the atoms of that man and a fly. The film was very interesting to watch and I found myself comparing it to films of today. It was very fun to look at the differences and similarities in the characters, the way they dress, act, and talk. It was also entertaining how the machines and devices portrayed in the film, together with the special effects they used in the film would have been the lowest technology in the modern era.It was also altogether fun to watch how some of our classmates would react to surprising events in the film.

It was a commentary on the work ethics of scientists before, and may even still hold true for today. They portrayed scientists as people thirsty for knowledge, and sometimes it would get in the way of rational thinking. It also tackled morals of the different characters, and may still be within the attitudes of man today. The value of life was clearly debated on the story, yet that debate was not concluded. It included using animals for experiments, and humans included. It greatly dealt with killing the unsuccessful result of the experiment still a human or a thing, being a combination of the atoms of human and fly. It was intriguing how in the end, all the hard work they put into the experiment were tucked away in their memories as something to learn to, and yet still show the possibility of something similar happen again.

Denz Joseph R. Borrero
2009-37801

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