Since yesterday was my day off and everybody is at home during Sundays, my siblings and I rented a couple of movies and made a movie marathon out of it. And in these movies, it really got me thinking...why aren't they considered Horror Movies?
Obviously from the title itself, I'm sure you won't be mistaken that we were watching The Ring, The Grudge and all those Ghost movies that we had classified as horror thriller or something of the like. Well these movies are really scary but they are still fictitious. Ghost and ghouls they may be but they still live in our imagination. Even though I believe in the supernatural and the likes, those movies might be frightening but only at the beginning. If I watch it again, I would just pass it as part of the imagination of a great writer and was shown on the big screen by a good director. But after that first fright, and the forming of the goosebumps when I watch it, to me it will be forgotten as another movie would come with the same genre.
So, as I've said, as The Ring, The Grudge and those Friday the 13th movies might really be scary, to me I would applaud the creators for giving me a good scare and forget about it the next two days. So, obviously these weren't the movies that I watched.
You might be shocked and cock an eyebrow at my direction as I type in the titles of the movies that I had watched but if you think about it, it makes sense. But again, this is just my opinion. I'm talking about The Matrix, 10.5, The Day
After Tomorrow and I, Robot.
Yup, I see eyebrows raising in disbelief. But last Sunday, as I watched those movies with my siblings it just occurred to me that these things can happen and might happen than the usual ghost and goblins springing out of your closet. Most of you would just laugh and say that it will never happen. But look around you and see what has been happening. These things might not happen in our lifetime, but it might happen in the future. We might not suffer the consequences of our actions but our children and/or our children's children might.
The Matrix and I, Robot...
At these day and age, we can clearly see that technology is really getting to all of us. Some can't even do the most basic things without technology. We already have courses on Robotics and the likes. Honda has already made "Asimo", the closest thing to a human these creators can do. Who can deny than in a couple more years, they can make a better Asimo and can well replace man? The Matrix and I, Robot showed us the consequences of being too dependent on machines but still paying treating them with value and respect because we think that we are still better than them, we created them, they feel nothing and their programming makes us do the thinking and not them. But add a thinking brain to that and see what will happen. World domination not by man but by machines. Don't you think it's not scary to be born in a pod and being used as "batteries" by machines like the way they showed in Matrix? Or how a mainframe "evolved" and controlled every machine on the planet? With all these technological advancement, it is highly likely that man can make a mistake and create these things that will destroy us. We have been hearing news that scientists are developing a thinking computer, creating machines that can replace man in everyday work and creating machines of destruction that doesn't need man's guidance to pilot it. Think about the consequences if these machines evolve like in the movies and start attacking us? We keep creating these technology and never stop to think of the consequences. These movies are like warning signals...and I really don't think anybody is listening.
From technological advancement, comes the destruction of our environment. We pollute the world and killing our mother earth little by little...but does anyone care? Well, only a few handful. But they can't really do anything if we don't help out.
10.5 and The Day After Tomorrow...
10.5 is a Hallmark production about a massive earthquake hitting the west coast of the United States, obliterating almost 3/4 of it. And The Day After Tomorrow is a movie about the shift of the earth's atmosphere because the fresh water has a larger ratio than salt water in our oceans. Both are calamitic disasters that should have been prevented if we actually take care of our world. Today, we have had reports of our ozone layer thinning out, toxic waste being thrown in our oceans and forest being burned down to make factories and buildings for more employment. But at what cost? We listen to different music about our environment being depleted and killed but are we really listening? Have you actually thought of what might happen if it did happen? I looked at our small globe at home and saw that we might actually get hit though not hard but we will be experiencing very powerful hurricanes and tidal waves. And where will be left off by then? Will we even survive?
Yes, these movies are all science fiction. But if you look at it in another point view, it really might happen. And where will we end up it it did? Little bits of the truth are there and all we have to do is open our eyes to see it. Honestly, these should be horror movies. Can you really just brush these ideas aside and not think about the consequences? Can you just sit back and enjoy these movies without really thinking beyond it cinematic appeal? Can you really just forget about it, brush it aside and say that the effects were superb?
Think about the consequences. These movies aren't there because they cool effects and great scenery. These movies are there to warn us and if we're not careful, we might actually see ourselves in the Discovery Channel or National Geographic...The Age Of The Blind, when people were given signs but didn't really look.
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