About Bendito Machine (film 1) #edcmooc

05/11/2013 16:15

The film is a great example of dystopia.

As I was watching the video , some pictures were coming into  my mind ( from G. Orwell's 1984)  over and over again however, in first place,  I could not find out why this was happening.  After the film had finished I looked  for the term "dystopia" in Wikipedia, just for more information .

When I read  the text I realized that treating technology as if it was a God  is like treating a Government, in real life, as if it was a God.  These are two sides of the same  coin.  In both situations of this kind, people expect something extraordinary  to be done by  machines ( or by Government); their problems  to be solved without their  contribution. People  in the film acted as if they were not responsible  of their lives or as if they  could  do nothing about  what  happened around them. They let  technology  rule their lives and  dull their  mental reflexes. As a result of that, machines (like governments) became a kind of dictator  and acted arbitrary  against people.

Every time  machines were damaged,  people just threw them away  and replaced them with a new God- like technology.  At the end of the film the environment  was full of trashes ( just  as human minds and memories  may be); only vultures took action  and  cleaned the dirty  place.

I wonder ; Is this the only way for the minds and memories  to be cleaned? Vulturnes?