I just watched the movie "I, Robot."
Movies about scientific fiction are special cases. Moreover, cinema is a case apart, I think. It is paradoxical that a science fiction movie can make a real fact seems to be fiction, and thus, make that fiction resembles fact. I'll try to explain.
When watching a science fiction movie, I see four interesting things:
Movies about scientific fiction are special cases. Moreover, cinema is a case apart, I think. It is paradoxical that a science fiction movie can make a real fact seems to be fiction, and thus, make that fiction resembles fact. I'll try to explain.
When watching a science fiction movie, I see four interesting things:
First: that the creators of science fiction movies really can make the future look incredibly different and wonderful, at least at the time the movie is playing. Of course, when it is released, the movie with futuristic scenes is what best portrays the future for your exact present. After a few years, if we watch the same movie, we will probably see that the future he promised did not materialize, or that promise was absurd, or ridiculous, or too advanced, but at launch, they actually manage to capture our best expectations about the future.
Second: that although they concern the future, that future, however far in the time that is, it is still too close to that we will see it materialized into reality. There are scenes in movies that take place in 2020 and we think that they actually become fact in 2020, then a wonderful future awaits us, but in real life things are much slower. Movies that show things in 2020 show us, in fact, things that will occur only in 2200. We always get a slight feeling that, over the years, the movie promised good things too much, too soon, to be possible, and we feel a certain frustration. But we can only see it after a long time the film was released.
Third, the cinema industry, by itself, was never considered as part of a possible future. We do not do fiction about the movie industry, and therefore do not feed expectations about its future, but this future came: fifty years ago nobody could imagine the advances that the graphics computer and special effects would be achieved. Watching a fabulous fiction movie is also attend to this present. After all, the movie was made just now, and it is real. It was possible to do it! Behold the future becomes the present!
Second: that although they concern the future, that future, however far in the time that is, it is still too close to that we will see it materialized into reality. There are scenes in movies that take place in 2020 and we think that they actually become fact in 2020, then a wonderful future awaits us, but in real life things are much slower. Movies that show things in 2020 show us, in fact, things that will occur only in 2200. We always get a slight feeling that, over the years, the movie promised good things too much, too soon, to be possible, and we feel a certain frustration. But we can only see it after a long time the film was released.
Third, the cinema industry, by itself, was never considered as part of a possible future. We do not do fiction about the movie industry, and therefore do not feed expectations about its future, but this future came: fifty years ago nobody could imagine the advances that the graphics computer and special effects would be achieved. Watching a fabulous fiction movie is also attend to this present. After all, the movie was made just now, and it is real. It was possible to do it! Behold the future becomes the present!
And finally, fourth: we do not even realize it, that the future has arrived, at least in certain areas. We do not have a lot of men in space, but we have the Internet, computers, e-mail, cell phones, the special effects in theaters, and not even realize it. And we have popular cars!
And why do not we realize this?
I think because we are mired up to our necks in all this thing we call technological development.
To be frank, we are undergoing the biggest revolution that humanity, the planet, the cosmos has ever seen, and even have awareness of the scale of this revolution. The size of the thing is fantastic, and Will Smith is just part of the process
Where does it end?
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