Thursday, January 15, 2009

AI + Brazil + The Matrix

These past couple days I've been real busy working on the video, and it's turned out really great. Once it gets on youtube I'll post a link, it's over 40 minutes long, longest movie I've ever worked on. So now, I'll combine the three movies into one post. They were pretty good, but Blade Runner remains my favorite movie in this intersession and one of the best of all time.

AI-
AI was a great film that really raises the question about what humanity is. Simply put, I don't think there's anything that we can do that a machine won't be able to do later on. We're just made up of code, what's keeping us from creating something as complex from a different type of code? It was well done, even the ending was pretty good, which a lot of other people didn't like.

Brazil-
The film did a good job of showing how bureacracy can get inefficient, and it's already like that when it comes to some aspects of life. It happens a lot when things are run by the government. I really enjoyed the dream sequences. It can be confusing to see this movie, and the ending is sort of an answer to the matrix question that I'll mention next.

Matrix-
I was wondering what I would do in Neo's place. Would I rather wake up to some real life, where everything is miserable or live in a great place, that's not any less real that the supposed real place. Maybe it's fake but there's not a difference that can be perceived. Everything could be great and there wouldn't be a point to fighting the machines really, since it wouldn't make human life any better than it is in the matrix. So in the end of Brazil, would it be better to live in that dream world, free of everthing else? Or would it be better to be miserable and tortured? I think the answer is easy.

All these films were really well done, and pose great questions. But they're still not as good as Blade Runner. Not even if they were combined and made into one movie.

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