Movies Reflections

iRobots

The story of the movie takes place in the year of 2035, which the part of technological revolution. It is futuristic scenery where the world has filled with millions of servant robots. These robots have used to do all the manual labor. They are the perfect helper to the society. Humans are free to enjoy their lives without the stress. Robots have been hardwired with the said three laws (The Three Laws of Robotics) that make them incapable of harming the society. Yet there is murder happen to one of the robotics science who is a friend of Will Smith in this movie. Will Smith plays the role of Detective Spooner who has distrust of the robots because of the incident in his past. It is believed that his friend has committed suicide which Spooner does not consider. Spooner suspicion on the incident falls to Sonny, the unique robot who has dreams and emotions. With this movie, it leaves me a question to me if could robots will take over the world. Definitely, robots is really has a great help to the society. We all know automation has currently exists in many areas, in our house, at our work and even to the new technologies that have invented. Exoskeleton is the external skeleton that would help disabled people to move and making them less dependency with other people. One of the advantages of robots will be a replacement human in the areas of security, surveillance and defense, such soldiers and armies which will result be less human deaths. But having robots will bring drawbacks to the society. If robots will carry out all the labors tasks in the company, industry or all human workloads surely unemployment will arise might as well poorly paid workers. I cannot truly justify if robots are a great help or would be a destruction to human existence.

Wall-e

The movie situates on the year of 2700 where the world has long been uninhabitable. Humans have abandoned the earth because it has been covered with trash and waste which causes devoid of the plants and animal life. All human beings where continue their life in the outer space while the earth is preparing to its restoration. For how many years, only one robot remains on cleaning the earth, that is Wall-e. Wall-e (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) is the garbage collecting robot that has left to clean the mess of the earth.

Watching the movie, made me realized how the earth will be looked like when people act as an irresponsible human being throwing all their trash that leads to destroying the mother earth. Wall-e as a garbage collector robot has expending years to clean up the garbage left by uncaring and selfish people who are enjoying their lives in the spaceship Axiom. They have just waiting for the day when the earth is ready and available to be inhabitable. The movie is reminding everyone of us we might end up just like what is in this movie. We might headed to the same direction in which making our world inhabitable. As what we observe to our surroundings today, we have effectively polluted the land, water and air supply. Here in the movie, people are not worried on what happened to the earth and even thinking of learning to conserve it. However, we can never blame them because everything they do is cared by the machines. We all know we are too much dependent on technology since it makes us to save time and become efficient. Unfortunately, our dependency with those machines have isolated us from one another. The movie stresses out the rampant commercialism in Axiom. In the spaceship where people are aboard everything is being provided. Even if those things are not needed. For the Big and Large Corporation everything is provided that given them away to profit.

SURROGATES

Surrogate is a movie where humans live isolation and only interact through remote-controlled artificial bodies that serve as surrogates. Surrogate defines as one that takes the place of another; a substitute. This movie happens when the world has overrun with robots. Many human beings have chosen to have a replica or surrogate of themselves. Humans are able to remotely control their other self and send it to the world to do for them what they normally would have done with themselves. Thus, the world becomes peaceful wherein there is no crimes, and no pains. However, there are several humans gets killed when his surrogate is destroyed, a cop who where plays by Bruce Willis investigates the crimes through his own surrogate.

This movie has brought a lesson to us humans who are too dependent on the technology. It teaches us that there is nothing wrong with getting older. We live and we die, and that is how were brought up to learn. In reality, just like in this movie, many people hiding behind their internet persona to upper better that they are instead of meeting people face-to-face to socialize. If we are to remember, the initially intention of the creation of robots were to allow disabled people to experience things that only physically normal individual could, not to gives humans reason to leave their house just like what is being portray in this movie. Another is the development of chat rooms, where it purposely serve as a communication line to bring people together when real interaction or physical interaction is not possible, not to act as a permanent substitute for daily in person interaction. It only shows that the real purpose was lost in both cases which somehow change the way people live their lives.

Eagle Eye

This film made me realize how dangerous technology is especially when it is granted with manipulative control over things. Artificially injected machines are gradually being compared with its manual counterparts and so there are lots of people who chose to believe that it will. Machine-controlled computers are being developed with near-human brain capacity in the latter's desire to enhance everything and around. In the movie where the artificial intelligent supercomputer controls every networked device to it, that eventually led to chaos, and so it can be said that sometimes the very solutions we create are the ones who complicate and threaten our security.

Pirates of Silicon Valley

This film talks about the history of how the two of the biggest companies in computer technology rose. The main actors in the story were none other than the founders of Apple and Microsoft, established business enterprises. Well, the film is like a documentary of the comparison of their operations and how they deal with other business especially those within the same industry or length.