REACTION PAPER: The Fly

As the film introduced its title at the early part of the movie, I feel like imagining the whole movie a monotonous one. But as the film goes and approaches its middle part, I bit changed my prejudices on the film, I felt like it was becoming more interesting. What is interesting and entertaining in the movie is that it deals with technology specifically a new discovery—a machine allowing one to travel from place to another within just a matter of seconds through teleportation—which is hard to believe with but undoubtedly amazing, if ever it will be discovered.

The film portrayed how scientists behave. It was shown that the husband in the movie who is a scientist was really curios and that he never stops looking for the solution to the problem his machine was experiencing—letters in the bottle were arranged inversely and the disappearance of the cat. This shows the patience, creativity, and curiosity of scientists when inventing, observing, or examining things. This portrays the truth that scientists never give-up unless they have reached unto their conclusion. It also features that not for all the time that science succeeds but it also experiences instances of failures along the way.

In my own point of view I do not consider it as a morality play simply because it didn't portrayed about ethics and values, only things about scientific fictions and how scientists behave were portrayed throughout the movie(in my opinion).

The film reflects the view on Science and Technology during the 1950's by showing how desperate science and technology is in finding a faster and inconvenient way of transportation. That the focus of Science and Technology that time was to find a more efficient way to travel.