Creating Believability | Machine Revolution

Living in the age of technology and its never ending progress makes us wonder where all this scientific knowledge is leading. The fear of technology taking over the human race is rampant in the futuristic films below. The way our world is now, it is not very shocking that the struggle between science and mankind will exist in the future. Rather it is the fear and anxiety that comes with predicting to what extent or degree this war of balance in machine and man will be. The possibility of the mutated man/machine is out to destroy mankind is precisely the dystopia outlined in the films.

In Blade Runner (see above), the existence of manufactured human-clones (replicants) and their struggle for survival in the world is heartfelt. After all it was not their choice to "exist", but rather created so that they could be used as slaves. In the film this scientific exploration into a new kind of 'human' is not welcomed for when the replicants realize that they will just die--the replicants come after their creator Tyrell and kills him.

The idea of mutation and genetic engineering or altering of the human fate is demonstrated in Akira (above). The Japanese have interfered with the genetics to create a super-human being that would be more controllable than Akira and more successful than the Espers with Tetsuo, But the ending with Tetsuo's meltdown and nuclear-like explosion, it is apparent that messing with nature is dangerous and has dire consequences despite the technology accessibility aside.

The believability is stronger in Metropolis 2001 (above) because it puts the fate of the city in the hands of science and technology. From the focus of our world these days where everything is dependant on scientific knowledge from medicine to plant facilities, the idea behind the creation of the ultimate being/machine is fearful. To feel as though your life is dependant on this robot, as Tima is disturbing as she/it later later ends up destroying most of the city because it was too powerful for any human to control.

As the fate of Metropolis 2001 was at the hands of a robot, the robot Maria in Metropolis (1927) (above) tried to destroy the technological pattern of what kept Metropolis alive. She/It turned the workers and businessmen alike to fight and lose sense of reality. This disturbance cause by the robot makes it utterly clear that messing with technology and its integration in human life may not necessarily improve the quality of human life, but rather the destroy it.



	Living in the age of technology and its never ending progress makes us wonder where all this scientific knowledge is leading. The fear of technology taking over the human race is rampant in the futuristic films below. The way our world is now, it is not very shocking that the struggle between science and mankind will exist in the future. Rather it is the fear and anxiety that comes with predicting to what extent or degree this war of balance in machine and man will be. The possibility of the mutated man/machine is out to destroy mankind is precisely the dystopia outlined in the films. In Blade Runner (see above), the existence of manufactured human-clones (replicants) and their struggle for survival in the world is heartfelt. After all it was not their choice to "exist", but rather created so that they could be used as slaves. In the film this scientific exploration into a new kind of 'human' is not welcomed for when the replicants realize that they will just die--the replicants come after their creator Tyrell and kills him. The idea of mutation and genetic engineering or altering of the human fate is demonstrated in Akira (above). The Japanese have interfered with the genetics to create a super-human being that would be more controllable than Akira and more successful than the Espers with Tetsuo, But the ending with Tetsuo's meltdown and nuclear-like explosion, it is apparent that messing with nature is dangerous and has dire consequences despite the technology accessibility aside. The believability is stronger in Metropolis 2001 (above) because it puts the fate of the city in the hands of science and technology. From the focus of our world these days where everything is dependant on scientific knowledge from medicine to plant facilities, the idea behind the creation of the ultimate being/machine is fearful. To feel as though your life is dependant on this robot, as Tima is disturbing as she/it later later ends up destroying most of the city because it was too powerful for any human to control. As the fate of Metropolis 2001 was at the hands of a robot, the robot Maria in Metropolis (1927) (above) tried to destroy the technological pattern of what kept Metropolis alive. She/It turned the workers and businessmen alike to fight and lose sense of reality. This disturbance cause by the robot makes it utterly clear that messing with technology and its integration in human life may not necessarily improve the quality of human life, but rather the destroy it.