The Fly (1958)

The Fly is a 1958 science-fiction film directed by Kurt Neumann. It tells a story of a 1950s scientist trying to invent something very advanced, and in the process gets himself harmed and his family greatly affected.

The film was, for me, entertaining because of its weird plot, the unpredictable twists and turns of the story, and the peculiarity of the problem they were trying to solve. But the aspect of the film that I found to be really entertaining is the fact that it featured something so complex, yet it was set in the 1950s. It was fun to know that people decades ago were already trying to do something as advanced as teleporting- which is, even today, still impossible.

The film also showed how scientists are when pursuing or inventing something very important in science. They’d do practically anything just to perfect it. They would even meddle in things not meant to be meddled in, like human life. They seem to forget that experimenting on human life is very disrespectful, because it is just like disfiguration or mutilation of something very precious. The movie is similar to a morality play because it showed the consequences of doing something immoral, and how meddling in the natural order of things will never bring any good.

            Science and advancement in technology seemed popular in the era of 1950s. The fact that they were already trying to teleport back then just proves that they were very curious and eager to explore and expand the boundaries of science and technology. They used science and technology to improve their lives and to gain knowledge. Some of the results of their experimentations were very beneficial and exceptional, but still, others are harmful and disastrous.

Barbosa, Camille Anne C.

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