Reaction Paper: The Fly (1958)

The film was gruesomely entertaining with its twisted plot and dark horror. Its  sound effects and music background were remarkable engaging, making me cringe in anticipation and suspense. Even though I had a hint of what was coming (I saw the 1986 remake of the The Fly back when I was just a kid) surprisingly, I could not take my eyes off the screen.

                Revolving around a creepy madness of a scientist playing God, it shows how innate human’s curiosity and hunger for knowledge are. It reflects how even way back in the 1950s,we intensely crave for explanations and how we strongly desire for more scientific discoveries. It could be considered as a dangerous morality play. It treads the thin gray line between right and wrong, between advancing science and technology and playing God.  The film ends with the investigator smashing the man-fly with a rock. Then, the scientist’s brother-in-law told the investigator  that the wife was no more of a murderer than he was. This last scene was appallingly confusing and thought-provoking. Who’s to say what is and isn't considered murder – killing a man-fly or a fly-man or both?

Edissy Claudine T. Ramos
2009-33319