The movie The
Fly has an interesting but quite disturbing theme because considering how
broad science is and how complex things can become through scientific
researches and experiments, what Seth Brundle did and what happened to him is
not far from impossible.
The movie showed
one of the reasons why many scientists and researchers conduct experiments
mainly on animals first before proceeding to doing experiments on humans.
Trials first are done (in the movie, Seth had a baboon test subject) with
animals other than humans to avoid accidents just like what happened to the
first try of Brundle to teleport a baboon which died in the process. This is
where he tested if life forms can be used as test subjects. Seeing how he could’ve
avoided the death of a human subject, his experiment still ended killing an
animal test subject which shows a moral issue in the picture.
This
showed that experiments before are easily concluded successful already when the
first few trials happen according to how scientists see the mechanism or
experiment must work. This situation blind them into neglecting to consider
worst-case scenarios, which in the movie turned Seth Brundle into a mutant fly
hybrid after the random interference of a harmless fly.
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