Argument: Technology and the human body have limitations that should not be crossed. Humans create the technology and should control it. Once the technology surpasses its limitations, it will completely destroy the human bodies that created it by blurring the lines of reality and fantasy.
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Thursday, April 24, 2008
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Prompt 12
I think that violence is a way to support the argument that technology has a limit and should not pass it. When technology becomes too strong, it will destroy the person who created it. It is seen through this movie by Max becoming almost like a machine. He kills people without any feeling of remorse. Machines do not feel the same way that humans do. Humans take time to heal and feel the pain. There are many parts where Max will have bullet holes or huge openings in his body and he will recover from those in seconds. This shows the difference because he cannot feel the pain or have to deal with it because it will just go away.
Violence is a good way to make people actually listen or force them to do things. If someone just told Max to kill people, he would have done it. Through the use of violence, it intrigued him to watch a show that would soon take over his body and control him. It controlled Nikki’s sexual behaviors because she was fascinated or “turned on” by violence. Her sexual pleasures were controlled by violence, such as the cuttings or cigarette burn to hear skin. Also, violence also allows audiences to focus on the issues. People are normally disturbed by humans hurting other humans. It is a classic way to get emotion out of a person watching what is happening before their eyes. If things are not as direct, people will not take them seriously. But with the type of violence that Videodrome showed, it definitely makes me think because I have never watched violence for fun or for any reason actually. I don’t like it unless it is completely fake, like cheesy violence. It definitely strikes a nerve because it is different, and that is why we had extreme class reactions to the movie. And that is why Max was fascinated because it was so different.
This infection part of the question is a little hard to grasp. I guess that Videodrome was an infection because once someone was exposed to the video, they would be controlled by it. This is very much a typical type of infection on literal terms.
Overall, these ideas combine to show the true problems with technology. Technology became too strong and people were killed. This shows the negative side of technological advancements. There is a limit.
Violence is a good way to make people actually listen or force them to do things. If someone just told Max to kill people, he would have done it. Through the use of violence, it intrigued him to watch a show that would soon take over his body and control him. It controlled Nikki’s sexual behaviors because she was fascinated or “turned on” by violence. Her sexual pleasures were controlled by violence, such as the cuttings or cigarette burn to hear skin. Also, violence also allows audiences to focus on the issues. People are normally disturbed by humans hurting other humans. It is a classic way to get emotion out of a person watching what is happening before their eyes. If things are not as direct, people will not take them seriously. But with the type of violence that Videodrome showed, it definitely makes me think because I have never watched violence for fun or for any reason actually. I don’t like it unless it is completely fake, like cheesy violence. It definitely strikes a nerve because it is different, and that is why we had extreme class reactions to the movie. And that is why Max was fascinated because it was so different.
This infection part of the question is a little hard to grasp. I guess that Videodrome was an infection because once someone was exposed to the video, they would be controlled by it. This is very much a typical type of infection on literal terms.
Overall, these ideas combine to show the true problems with technology. Technology became too strong and people were killed. This shows the negative side of technological advancements. There is a limit.
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Prompt 11
The movie “Terminator 2” gives a great analysis of the mix of technology and the body. This movie is actually very similar to Neuromancer because of the machines that can think for themselves. The one difference is that the Terminators were a combination of the 2 AI’s from the novel. These bodies could take on their own form or take on the form of someone else. It was really intriguing. This movie was more interesting when analyzing the body argument, than it would have been just watching another action movie.
The argument of the body is that there are limits to the body. In the movie, scene 37, it is said that it is human nature to destroy themselves. It explains that a man made a thinking computer and it ended up killing millions of people because the machines could think and act for themselves. They could not be stopped by human things, such as guns. I think that the argument presented in this movie is that there is a limit to the use of technology because with the good comes the bad. Sarah, one of the main characters, also states at the end that a machine can know the value of human life, maybe humans can too. The point of life is to learn for oneself and to figure it out as you go along. If someone knows everything, it will end in complete disaster.
In this movie, none of the humans had any technological advances. But the superhuman computers could do almost anything. They could take on the voices and figures of other people. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s character could view and analyze everything with his eyes. He could learn from people around him. He learned new phrases and learned from passed experiences. There are so many different aspect of technology combined with the body that it is hard to focus on just a few things. Great movie, even though you could tell from the special effects that it was made in the 90’s.
The argument of the body is that there are limits to the body. In the movie, scene 37, it is said that it is human nature to destroy themselves. It explains that a man made a thinking computer and it ended up killing millions of people because the machines could think and act for themselves. They could not be stopped by human things, such as guns. I think that the argument presented in this movie is that there is a limit to the use of technology because with the good comes the bad. Sarah, one of the main characters, also states at the end that a machine can know the value of human life, maybe humans can too. The point of life is to learn for oneself and to figure it out as you go along. If someone knows everything, it will end in complete disaster.
In this movie, none of the humans had any technological advances. But the superhuman computers could do almost anything. They could take on the voices and figures of other people. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s character could view and analyze everything with his eyes. He could learn from people around him. He learned new phrases and learned from passed experiences. There are so many different aspect of technology combined with the body that it is hard to focus on just a few things. Great movie, even though you could tell from the special effects that it was made in the 90’s.
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