The Fly: Reaction Paper

 

Although most of today’s science fiction movies involve a man turning into a mad scientist, the movie is still generally entertaining in a sense that it gives us an old yet accepted idea that people with quest for knowledge  have the tendency of becoming an evil person. The film illustrates the idea using a somewhat silly plot which makes it not only an eye-opener but also comical.

                Digesting the substance of the movie, it is clearly a commentary on scientists, particularly the scope and limitations of science.  Depicting a guy who invented something mystical as a victim of his own discovery, the film has the central idea of showing us the possible evil potential of science when used incorrectly. For an example, exchanging the some body parts of human with a fly possesses a possible threat in our world for the reason that it can produce an organism capable of eradicating human race. Such scientific process is a morality play which should be forbidden alongside the creation of clones and other methodologies with ethical issues.

                 As a reflection of people’s view on science and technology during 1950s, the movie was able to show people’s sentiment of science as a tool that could literally change the world. In fact, the devices we have such as phones, computers, and complex machines are the living testament that they once believed that it is good to invest on human brains. However, people that time also predicted that technology could be used in evil ways. Modern examples are the use of biological agent as a tool of war, missiles, and other weapons of mass destruction. Indeed, they made a sound forecast.

 

Al Francis Masallo

2013-10197