Reaction Paper for “The Fly” 2013-61222

Ed Joshua Mañalac
2013-61222
THY
Reaction Paper for “The Fly”

For me, I found the movie interesting and entertaining because it made me want to know what really happened. The flashback storyline made me interested on the reasons why Andre died and on why Helen kept denying that she didn’t kill his wife.

The film’s commentary on science is that sometimes, Science forgets the limit and boundaries of what to study in the sense that they will neglect any obstacle they will face for the sake of research. It implies also that we should consider morality issues and ethics in doing experiments or should I say research for science. The film portrayed a morality play on the exchanging of genes part because I think, the alteration of one’s genes is an issue of morality. Another issue of morality for me also is the part of killing because Andre died in a manner that is not sacred. He died in a way of like sentence death which is not moral. But the moral of the film I think was illustrated to us that we should learn how to limit and control ourselves on what is supposed and what is not supposed to be done.

The science way back 1950’s as portrayed by the film was amazing. Looking back at the movie, the concept of teleporting one object to another is already an advanced technique in science. The science way back is already advance, but I think as portrayed by the film, that science back then does not consider morality much.  But looking at the science now, I could say that there is a dynamic change between the science of the 1950’s from the science now.