Friday, October 23, 2009
Today i went to watch Surrogates. Though it was a particularly crappy film (nowhere near max-payne-crappy) it did leave behind some deep impressions on me about the state of humanity.
The movie was about how people use robotic surrogate versions of themselves to go about their daily lives. These surrogates' outside appearance can be easily modified so it becomes extremely hard to tell how the surrogate operator actually looks like.
This brings to question of the various facades modern people put on everyday like masks. Even as students we do have a very shallow exterior that often hides our true personalities and intention. Do we really know who our friends are? Do they really know who you are?
Do YOU even know who you are?
The last scene where all the surrogates are remotely disabled and everyone on the streets just simultaneously collapses, while the fleshy Bruce Willis walks through the dead city was particularly thought provoking.
How do you intend to keep yourself human in a progressively inhuman world?
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