Hardware

Biotechnology

            In the movie trailer of “Hardware” it portrays the future as a place of overcrowding, sickness and misery. People are in distress after the nuclear war they just had in the 21^st century. After the war a soldier bought a robotic skull for his girlfriend who is an artist. This seems fin but there is one problem with this, the robot is still alive and nobody realizes that it is still alive. This robot is capable of self-repairing itself. They named the robot M.A.R.K 13. The robot went around using toxins and lethal weapons such as saw blades to kill any humans that were nearby in sight. People were losing hope in society so they started relying on outdated computer technology that was decaying each and every day. My personal response to this text is that the director did a very good job in this movie with the robot. He made the robot witty and the robot was a very deceptive person because he played dead in various parts of the movie when he wanted to kill the humans. He played dead so he could kill the humans and the humans would just think that he is dead already, so it is like the robot had an advantage over the humans because the humans weren’t ready to be attacked because they thought that the robot was dead.

            The purpose of this work is to show how low the human life is when things are not going their way. The humans were upset that their lives were turning to disaster and they were living in the slums so they became too dependent on technology but once the technology became outdated they had nowhere to turn. They became too dependent on technology and were open to be attacked by the robot that was playing dead. The specific techniques used to achieve this purpose were the color scheme of the red and the black. These two colors are dark and depressing colors and they portray a negative feeling. Also the face of the man in the movie cover is very threatening looking. This portrays a threatening feeling and gives the viewers something to chew on. It makes them wonder who this person is. It makes them question if he is evil or good, and what is his purpose in the movie. The overall effect of this movie is portrays a life in the future that is in distress. People are in misery and their lives are in disaster because of the technology that they can no longer rely on. The movie is negatively connotated and like many other movies of the future, the future is portrayed as a negative place that is degrading each and every day.

            In this movie the word “human” means you are in misery and you are in misery because of the reliance of technology that you depended on for years and now that technology is failing you so you do not know what to do. The word “human” means that your life is being taken over by robots and they are killing people and they are growing in numbers each and every day. In this movie the humans are losing power while the robots are gaining strength, ultimately leading for the population being destroyed because of how powerful the robots have become in this movie.

            Our depictions of the future reveal that the present is a very fragile time in our lives right now. We are either heading toward a future of greatness or a future of destruction. We have all of this advanced technology and there is so much more new technology to be made. This technology could either be helpful or hurt us greatly and lead to our destruction. Most of the people predict and portray the future as a bad place because of the way people are harming the Earth right now but it is not too late to change things and make a positive step toward the future so that the future can be a better place.