About Bendito Machine (film 1) #edcmooc
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?