“Technologies” in Movies

When I watch movies these days, I see a lot of it dealing with technologies in our life. Some example movies are Echelon Conspiracy, I-Robot, Cellular, Transformers, and Eagle Eye. If you watched at least one of these movies, you will understand what I am saying. All of these movies deal with some kind of technology in our modern society. All of them are very high-tech and have a lot of meaning to it.

Some of these movies deal with flaws in our technology and how powerful the technologies are. For example in I-Robot, Echelon Conspiracy, Transformers or Eagle Eye, it deals with super-tech computers trying to conquer the whole nation. The community built the machine but now the machine is controlling over the community. I think this ironic topic is popular these days because today’s modern technologies are improves vastly everyday. These movies also predict the future for us if we don’t “control” the technology like in I-Robot. They are telling us that if we develop much smarter robots than humans, then someday they will be more powerful then human and will conquer the human nation. Therefore these movies tell us to be more careful and cautious over machines.

On the other hand the other movie, Cellular, deals with how modern cell phone technology is a very helpful tool in our life. The movie starts with a normal, California guy playing in the beach and getting a strange, mysterious call. When he picks up some woman claims that she has been kidnapped. Her phone is broken so she can’t dial anyone but because she was a high school teacher, she played with the wires and somehow the it called to a stranger, which was the beach guy. After he realizes that it wasn’t a joke, he does every to save her family and her. Later on, he discovers that the people who kidnapped her were the dirty cops and were looking for a video clip her husband filmed it, which contained them shooting people and doing robbery. At the end, the beach guy and the dirty cops fight and the beach guy wins by using his cell phone to call the dirty cop so the real cop can hear the sound of the ringing tone to know where he is and kill him. It seems very complicated when I wrote it but when you see the movie, you will understand the whole point. The interesting thing in this movie is that they emphasized that every body uses cell phone and it is actually very helpful in life if you use it correctly.

As you can see, I have noticed that many directors are focusing on the technologies and the consequences it brings to our society. I think it is because now days people just trying to develop and improve their life with technology without thinking about the future consequences, therefore I think we need still need to improve the technology but be more considerate and careful with it.