Watching
this fifty five year old movie has made me think of how people have already
developed a sense of creativity even at the early times. It is okay to say that I enjoyed it because
the pace was a bit slow for me, but my attention was definitely on the film the
whole time. It brought about curiosity within me, thinking about why Helene
would kill her husband, why she was acting weirdly around flies.
Science
can make anything possible even the things which are far from the people’s
imagination. It just goes to show that they have a wide sense of wanting to
improve technology. One would want something better and eventually the best. Andre
has put the burden on his shoulders in creating possibly the biggest technological
innovation in his time. With Andre’s experiment turning into a disaster, Helene
obliged to find a fly, Andre just wanting to die at the end, and Helene doing
it for him, I consider it a morality play showing how people decide under
circumstances, whether they religiously choose between good or bad, or just do
what they thought was right.
During the 1950s
when innovations on science and technology were on constant development, the film
suggests how people have been curious, making a picture of a scientist changing
the world. That was the time of hydrogen bombs and atomic powers, of ballistic
missiles during the World War II[i]. They
wanted to do what was never done before, but Andre ended up dead. It could be
the use of living creatures as experimental variables, the lack of preparedness
and carelessness, or the fire of their desire to succeed burning up, begging to
be seen. It is for the rest to decide.
[i]
Shmoop Editorial Team. 2008, November 11. Science
& Technology in the 1950s. Retrieved
December 12, 2013 from http://www.shmoop.com/1950s/science-technology.html
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