The Fly

          In comparison with the films made nowadays, I found The Fly (1958) somewhat both interesting and entertaining. The way the wife reacted when she saw her husband’s head turning into a fly and the desperation of finding one single fly just to save her husband was kind of funny. Coming from a science high school, these types of films somewhat catch my attention because the technology behind these inventions are what we strive for to better the future of our society. Teleportation is something that we only dream of achieving and the I think the film perfectly depicts both the advantages, flaws and repercussions of a device that is not fully explored and tested.

I would definitely consider it a morality play. Experiments are conducted in a way wherein it is morally acceptable to test new inventions and/or drugs on animals and when something wrong happens, society can brush it off just like in the film. But when it comes to human experiments, a single complication bares a big impact and cannot be simply overlooked. Every invention and innovation, both in medical and technological advancements, must first be tested before it can be proven effective. But because of the dangers it poses, it cannot be tested on humans first. A perfectly good example is cloning; animals have been cloned multiple times in the past few years. Most of the clones die at a young age or are born with a deformity. Why not test it on humans? It is simply because we already know what the complications may result from it and it is in society’s mindset that we cannot allow this to happen to another human being.