Films produced before the year I was born have always had a
different hold on my interest and entertainment. Films such as these remind me that
people already had sentient thought. More than this, they had the audacity to
organize, communicate and present it into the format of film.
The film charters into territories beyond Science and
ventures into Philosophy. Science has no morality. Science is neutral. It is
the user of the technology that is subject to the judgments of morality. Harnessing
nuclear technology destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but the discovery of this
technology also led to the creation of Nuclear Power Plants that, given firm
ground and proper engineering, may provide independence from the politics and
pollution of Oil.
The film was produced during the 50s, when the world watched
in wonder as new developments in technology continued to shape the world in big
strokes such as the military technology of the two world wars, the development
of antibiotic, the impending arms race, and the race of superpowers to the
moon. It then makes sense that the film makes out Scientists as superhuman beings
making discoveries nearly impossible even a century hence. It also makes sense
that science is made out to have morality. Whether it is good. Or bad.
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