Reaction Paper: "The Fly" (1958)

Was the film entertaining and interesting? My answer is between Yes and No. First of all, it is an old film. Seriously. It was released on the year my dad was born. (Sorry, Papa.) So its humor, story line and graphics aren't really compatible with what I am used to. It is a mystery-horror film but didn't meet my standards for those categories. Nonetheless, I was still entertained and interested. One of the reasons why was that I was trying to guess the rest of the story line while the movie went on and I got most of it right! But I really don’t know why the woman cried when the nurse killed a fly (take note: A fly) when she was going to kill THE fly anyway. It reminded me so much of an episode from the TV show, Spongebob Squarepants, where he and Squidward morphed together when they used Sandy’s malfunctioning teleporter at the same time, which is an example of generation Y entertainment. It has a very similar plot to the aforementioned film but now is a comedy. Doesn't exactly correctly depicts how much film science and technology has changed through the years but is an example, nonetheless.

It is a morality play. It shows how scientists try to turn things from improbable ideas/ science fiction into reality. Hovercrafts and jet-packs were once science fiction but now they are science fact. The things we can do film-wise in this time were once works of fiction. So was cloning. But to test this on a human has not been done yet because it is considered immoral. For example, the situation is that a scientist tries to clone an animal, say, a goat, and the experiment goes horribly wrong but a clone has been made but is extremely physically deformed. Say it lives but the scientist chooses the option to just let it die. Now if that goat was a human and a physically deformed offspring is produced, that scientist couldn't just let this failed experiment die because he’d then be murdering a human being. Same goes with teleportation. The house cat he first tested disappeared into thin air. Now if that was done unto a human, wouldn't that be also considered murder? That is why the message of this film, I assume, is that some parts of science should not be tampered with.