Surrogates Movie Review

The concept of the movie is fascinating. It illustrates the lives of people with robots as their surrogates. In a not so distant future, human used mind control robots to go on with their daily lives while they are sitting in a remote control chair at home. The robot or the surrogate goes to work, shop at malls, goes to school and everything that humans normally do. Because of the surrogates, crime are minimal until one day, a couple is gunned down in an alley and frying the brains of their users back at home. One of the victims is the son of the inventor of surrogates who is out of the company he founded. The FBI investigator named Greer hunts for the killer and led him to the edge of an anti-surrogates society.

It is difficult to identify the user of each surrogate for one can control several surrogates. At the end of the movie, Greer found out that the person behind all the killings is Canter, the inventor of surrogates. The movie was interesting but there are some blunt scenes. The movie itself, make us realize the effect of relying too much on technology specifically on robots. There is always a possibility that technology will over power humans if we keep on relying on them that will all make us worthless.

Eagle Eye Movie Review

The movie was all about an unfortunate nobody who is caught in a complicated situation, leaving him no choice but to follow in order to save his life, his name was Jerry Shaw. Together with him was a mother named Rachel. Out of nowhere, someone is calling them, instructing on an unknown mission for an unknown intent. The caller controls everything, their cell phones, their escape from the NBI, and seemingly every technology on earth. At first, they are hesitate to follow orders from the caller but they have no choice because their lives and Rachel’s son is in danger.

At the last third of the movie, the twist started. Jerry and Rachel separate ways, Rachel tried to execute Jerry as what the caller instructed in change of her son’s safety, while Jerry ended up as a hero who save the lives of people specially the president. The movie was really great; it is truly a blockbuster thriller. It shows what technology can do if it is out of control, it can manipulate people and even kill human beings.

Pirates of Silicon Valley Movie Review

It exposed the history and growth of personal computer industry. This movie is between Steve Jobs for Apple and Bill Gates for Microsoft, it illustrates the hardships and milestones of the two prominent companies in order to gain what they have today. The story started with IBM at the early 1980’s. The apple company which is founded by Steve Jobs and his friend ‘Waz’ started doing computers in a garage and reap the idea of graphical user interface from Xerox, a company who developed mouse and standard interface styles that we know today. Xerox let apple look everything they had and naturally, Apple stole everything they could.

On the other hand, Bill Gates formed his company called Microsoft who makes software like operating systems. IBM and Microsoft agreed that the new operating system called DOS will be used in all IBM machines, with this started the Microsoft dynasty. Apple and Microsoft became great rivals on the industry. The movie represents how technology evolves between friendships, Gates and Jobs who are friends became rivals because of their ambitions for their companies. But besides all of this, we should be still grateful for their inventions which we enjoy today.

I-Robot Movie Review

Human seek for convenient, comfortable and easy life. People invent and discover new technologies to make work fast and upgrade our way of living. Machines and robots are some of these inventions, which are a great help in our day to day lives.

The movie was all about the interaction of humans and robots living on the same world. The story started in the year 2035 where is the time of ‘robotophobic’, which means era of robots. In this time, robots are assistants and workers of humans. Robots follow the orders of humans and they work for their human owner. To live together with no harm, there are these 3 laws that robots need to follow and these are the following: first, they cannot harm a human. Two, they must follow whatever they are told by a human being as long as it doesn’t affect law one. And third, they have to defend their selves as long as it doesn’t affect law 1 and 2. Because of an incident, the suicide of Dr. Alfred Lanning, Detective Del Spooner and his friends discovered that there is a killer behind this, and it is VIKI (Virtual Interactive Kinetic Intelligence).

Robots under VIKI started to harm humans and have a plan to dominate the world but through the help of a robot named Sonny, Spooner stopped the mad robots and brought back to their old program. In this movie, humans relied so much on robots that they haven’t expected that these would go against them. It is not bad to explore new technologies and use them for convenience but too much relying would also harm all the human beings as well.

Wall-E Movie Review

The movie was all about a load lifter robot that was made by the Buy-N-Large Corporation. His name is WALL-E, short for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class. Its job is to compress all the tons of trash that are caused by human consumption. Wall- e is so dedicated with his job that all his time is spent to it. The non-stop disposal of humans made the earth a place full of garbage and they rely too much on machines that does everything for them even the simplest work.

As a result, humans became fat and can’t able to walk while busy sitting and do virtual things. On the other hand, wall-e as garbage cleaner realized after a long time of doing what he was built for finally discovers what he meant for. Everything changes when he met the love of his life, EVE, a female egg-shaped robot that caught his heart and caused new insights for wall-e.

The movie was fantastic knowing that it extends its real essence to the audience even in the first part, dialogues are minimal. It portrays the effect on continuous dependency of humans on machine. It wants us to realize that technology is a great benefit for all mankind but too much relying on it would make us all worthless.