Reaction Paper: Trip to the Moon (2013-48674)

MARQUEZ, Kristina Patriz S.
2013-48674
STS-THY
Reaction Paper: Trip to the Moon

                Being born in this generation, I am used to the talking characters, fascinating settings, great plots, soundtracks and sound effects, and such. To simplify things, I am used to how the movies are right now, which is far from what this film looks like. This is why I laughed, “What the hell is this film? Wait, I can’t even consider it a film.” I, honestly, didn't understand some scenes, especially the first few minutes or seconds of the film, until I read the plot summary. Still, it was pretty ridiculous to me.

                That was just how I viewed the film “A Trip to the Moon” until I learned that it was released in 1902. The fact that it was released more than a century ago (a hundred and twelve years to be exact) really wowed me. Why? The film was full of the maker’s imagination on how the moon looks like and what are in there. The maker’s imagination was pretty fascinating. How did all those concepts of going to the moon and of the moon get into the maker’s mind considering the technology present by that time? By 1902, travelling to the moon would seem so dreamy, using a bullet-shaped space capsule and huge cannon to travel to the moon would sound fascinating, being on the moon would be full of adventure, seeing unfamiliar objects would be interesting, and discovering and fighting unknown creatures would be frightening and thrilling.

                If watching it right now, wowed me, what more if I were present during the first screening of the film? Before the film’s first screening, I would probably not have imagined how the moon was or how could men go to the moon. Maybe, not even a tiny idea of the moon and of spacecrafts and unknown creatures and objects would have bumped into my head. Especially since, the technology then is way far from how the technology is right now: no spacecrafts, no images of the moon’s surface and definitely no robots to explore the moon. It would be my first time to see men go to the moon and fight unfamiliar creatures or what we now call aliens. I would definitely laugh at its humor, be impressed on the concept and production and give it a two-thumbs-up while standing ovation.