I got to tell you that this movie was long and slow, but still fun to watch. This movie was practically filled with punk that it screams it to the world to see.
Monthly Archives: November 2015
Ghost in the Shell (1995)
I got to say that it’s about time that we get to enjoy watching a sci-fi anime film. Ghost in the shell is practically a nest for a large quantity of cyberpunk themes. Because it shares its themes with many sci-fi films I’ve seen so far, it’s hard for me to choose from them. First off, the setting takes place in a dark futuristic world where the government controls all by their laws and agreements just as in the films Brazil and Blade Runner. Most people in this society has been modified or upgraded with technological systems or abilities such as mechanical limbs, scanners, brain plugging, and telepathic communication. This theme shares with the film Johnny Mnemonic as it also has cybernetic people only that in Ghost in the Shell, the modifications were given by organizations to help them track down criminals like a police force. There was also some reference form the Matrix in the scene where the main characters Motoko and her team captured the garbage man hacker and the criminal who gave him the program. After arresting them, they discovered that their memories were either erased or implanted by the Puppet Master, who is a sentient being originated from a computer. This gave them an case of identity crisis, implying that either the people were living a lie or they truly never lived at all. Like I’ve said before, so many themes in this film and so many other films to choose to compare with, but either way, this is one heck of a cyberpunk movie.
Hackers (1995) Analysis
The Hacker’s Manifesto/ When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth Analysis
First of all, I must say that of these two stories I have read, I have to admit that I preferred the story “The Hacker’s Manifesto.”
In “The Hacker’s Manifesto”, the story tells of a hacker commenting and arguing of how hackers such as him are considered as criminals due to their curiosity in hacking the computer systems. The society somehow ignore to appreciate their intelligence and ability to master the systems, but instead they charge the hackers as common criminals for violating a system. Though I agree that hackers are resourceful and geniuses in some way, I am against in them using that knowledge to steal and violate someone’s personal information. In this case, I see a hacker as an antihero where it could be half a benefit for society and half the nuisance.
In the story “When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth”, it tells the story of a sysadmin, which is a computer systems maintenance engineer, named Felix using his job as a hacker to try to prevent global disaster when the systems when into chaos. It just come to show that technologies will either be beneficial to society but treat it carelessly, it will lead us to a chaotic world where disaster awaits us.
I’ve come to realize that in both stories, hackers have a way to keep technology in balance with their abilities lead by their curiosity.
Westworld (1973) Ideology Analysis
Westworld (1973) Ideology Analysis
Westworld (1973) Ideology Analysis
The film had a way of showing the virtue of technology in our every day life. It can help us become more advanced, it quickens many things into a better progress, and can even help protect and save lives. Technology is a gift of the future but there comes a time when we squandered our gifts. The theme park was made for humans in order to relive the past utilizing androids and cybernetic technology to induce realistic scenes and people of the western world. The humans believe that the machinery was too perfect that it could never go wrong or even harm them as they enjoyed their time in the fun park, but they were wrong. Technology don’t have a human consciousness to know what is right or wrong so that when they went out of control, they just continued their programming even if it meant hurting people. It’s obvious that the ideology here is that we can’t always depend only to technology just because it is better. We need to balance our lives with both technological and primitive ways in order to avoid chaos. When one machine malfunctions, you can be sure that it won’t be the last problem we face. This is why we must treat it with respect and avoid misusing it at all times.