Ghost in the Shell

Throughout the entire course we have seen different types of technology, android, artificial intelligence and cyborgs that represent the cyberpunk genre. In general all of the film we watch have three things in common, the government and corporations have the power (men’s), the robots are seen has the subordinated class and the seek to know whether they have a soul. The film Ghost in the Shell is no different than the rest of film we’ve seen. I see a lot of resemblance in this film with the film Ex Machina, they both create cyborg, android or A.I with human characteristic and is this case women.  They project women as an object of seduction and pleasure to satisfied their needs and to help them seduce other people as we see in Metropolis. In Ghost in the Shell, Ex Machina and Robocop we see this internal search of whether or not they have a mind of their own. What makes them different than the humans? if they physically look a alike but underneath that artificial skin is all metal, that is why in the movie They Live the people did not know they live among aliens. All of this movie address the issue of Why were they created? To clean the humans mess? In Ghost in the Shell we see a lot of technological gadget as we see in Blade Runner and Johnny Mnemonic, but in these films having technological implants represent a risk for them in the society.

Hackers: Movie Analysis

The film Hackers 1995 represent how the hackers are treated  in our society. Hackers are perceive as criminals and the movie shows how sometimes the corporations and the people on power used them to cover their criminals acts. There is a fine line between good and evil and is the society that establish when something or someone is bad and the rest of the people could use this as an advantage. What got my attention is that they mention the “Hackers Manifesto” in the movie, because the film represent the feelings that are projected in the story. The movie show how the government and the police see the hackers as threat to our society. When they are just really intelligent people who like to spend their time behind a computer. I am not justifying some bad decisions and actions that the hackers may do, yes maybe they brake the system and take advantage of their ability. But now days they us their powers to make public some scheme made by the government, politicians and corporations that affect us. 

When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth” and "The Hacker's Manifesto"

Both stories "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth” and "The Hacker's Manifesto" expressed they feelings of a hacker towards how the world sees them. I really enjoy reading "The Hacker's Manifesto" because it was like a testimony were the Mentor projects how the hacker's are criminalized in our society, because they just want to keep inventing and creating new stuff. Reading both story together make us understand them better. I read  "The Hacker's Manifesto" first which open my mind on what is like to be a hacker then i read "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth” which emphasizes on the utility of a hacker. When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth” is a story of the end of the world caused by a bioagent. Felix a computer system engineer tries to prevent more chaos by using his hacker ability. The "The Hacker's Manifesto" shows that a hacker is some one with more curiosity and we can say more intelligent in technological things. They seek knowledge and thats what help Felix save and reconstruct the chaos. 

The Stepford Wives 1975: Ideolgies

The movie The Stepford Wives 1975 presents the desire of men to have the perfect women. This movie emphasize on roles establish by the society on how women and men should act. In the film we have Stepford Men's Association which projected men’s as the provider of the family and the ones who make decision over the women’s behavior.  The women’s don’t have a free spirit or a mind of their own. Why? Because men’s think that the duty of women is to be in the house cleaning, taking care of the kids and be a trophy wife to show it to others. That is way Stepford use this real women’s to create a perfect physical copy of them (androids) but with the behavior that the men’s wants in them. In this society women’s job is to be the perfect housewives that they can be and anyone that goes beyond that norm has to be replace. There were two scene that got my attention is that when the new guys in town went to their association “initiation” they came back acting weird, it was like Diz did something to them to. The movie even show the role of racism in the society, when the old lady told Johanna and Bobbie that a black couple has arrive in town. Why she had to do that? It wasn’t a big deal when a white couple arrive in town. In addition the film show the power of a dictator over the mass, because it was one guy controlling the whole town.

They Live 1988: Ideologies Analysis

The movie They Live 1988, is a film based on the domination from one social class to the other. In the movie we see later on that the high class or the people how dominate the city are aliens. Throughout the movie we see some ideologies expressed direct and implicit. Direct ideologies, dominance and subordination for example we see the difference in class were the poor class is growing and they do not have the same human rights than the others.  We see how they are treated and attack when they expressed their feeling and thoughts over the way the society is living. An example is the scene were the priest is talking in a public place and the police came. At first I didn’t notice what we was saying but then I realize he was criticizing the way they were treated.  An implicit ideology is the way the social media play with our mind, which then becomes explicit. It becomes explicit when Nada puts one the sunglasses and see the aliens and the subliminal message throughout the whole city.  Another example of the social media but in this case to make the poor people realize the situation they were living, is when the television is interrupt and we see the guy talking.  Some quotes: “Our spirit is corrupted” “they own us“ “The poor are growing”. Another point presented is that we see what we want to see, if we do not open our mind we cannot see what is really happening around us (fight scene). We cannot move away from the social problems that affect us. This movie is a critic to the political elitist minority group, the aliens represent the high class that want to keep the rest of the people subordinates. This movie presents the extinction of the middle class and the growth of the poor.

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