Blade Runner Jhon Fray Jaramillo Mazo

Blade Runner

Blade Runner It´s a movie that instantaneously catch my attention; I really love this kind of futuristic movies.

The idea of the androids existence and the fact they look as adult humans make us wonder how can it be possible, how to recognize them? Besides the possibility humans fall in love with them, exists the doubt whether do they really love or not?

One of the best movies a have watched, this movie show the future vision the writer though will exist at the future like powerful weapons, flying cars, retina analyzers, fingerprint readers and the powerful company building in the center of the city, the movie also depict the possibility of feeling fear from our own creations; an old idea if the future, in which a powerful androids company loses the control of its creations, these creation that try to stay alive for longer. Blade runner it’s the name of the special cops, who were hired to retire and destroy androids, which were banned in the earth; these androids were pronounced dangerous for humans.

The most interesting par is not the androids existence, it´s that they feel as well as a human do, they dream, they have expectances, rational and moral thoughts and also are disposed to preserve the human live. 

At the end of the movie it’s shown the last remaining clue that reveals to the views and Blade runner Deckard it’s also another replant that feels love and dream as a human.

My vision of the future Jhon fray Jaramillo Mazo

Future vision

I do really think a cataclysmic event will destroy and kill lots of people, survivors will have to approach the planet at possible maximum, future wont be our destruction, it will be an opportunity to restart and do it better; the phrase “if we don’t end war, war will end us” comes again; its possible that a bog part of the earth may be contaminated by radiation after war for food and water. Scientists will have to take lots of care of the grownings, doe to radiation people will have to move from cities; on the other hand people will have the possibility of having a better life by being helped by technologies; so if by the time people live expectance increases, it will be reached by technological advances. People might have their own robot that helps everybody with their duties. Supercomputers, flying cars and interplanetary trips will be as normal as nowadays we use smartphones.

Communication might be implanted in our bodies and just by touching a tactile screen we will have the possibility to have access to all our personal information by using contact lens displays, the biggest part of jobs might be based in programming, supervising and managing technologies and safety.

To be lazy or forgotten won´t   be an option, because we will have been warned by our implanted health care living assistant.

People could haven’t  the possibility to live in taller buildings as nowadays we do, they will have lo live in houses, doe to earth plates moving the earth floor  may be unstable, after conquer other planets, some people may move to them; at that time we could have not eliminated the capitalism. Therefore, there will be just a little part of world population can do this kind of trips.  

Dallas Buyer´s club Jhon fray jaramillo

Dallas Buyer´s club

What I really like about this movie is the transformation of Mr. Woodrof´s way of thinking about homosexual and transgender people, such a point to defend their rights. Never give up is the reflection taken from this film; Mr. Woodrof never gives up towards HIV, which is the virus that infects thousands of people every year. This movie sows us that having sex without any protection put our lives on risk of getting infected. Less education and unknowing what causes this virus drives people to get that kind of disease, lots of people don’t know they are infected, so they still spread the virus. Try to be test AZT, which seemed to be the AIDS cure, drives Mr. Woodrof to desperation, there were lot of difficulties. Therefore he got this medicine; he uses this medicine in himself and his partner Rayon. Rayon helps Mr. Woodrof to make the AZT business by distributing them; it is also an easy way of helping other infected people.

An important characteristic is that the movie producers keep the way this historical time looked like, time in which sexual transmission diseases weren’t unknown by a huge part of world population, just a little part of people knew what HIV and AIDS mean, tis time in which public health wasn’t totally controlled by FDA (food and drug administration) and neither medicines that hadn’t gone through medical pass.

Almost every phrase Mr. Woodrof said in the movie content slangs, it´s not totally bad, it´s an easy way to know how low classes speak.

I do really recommend watching this movie that catches my attention while watching it.     

THE SAD FICTION OF FUTURE

By Daniela Gómez S.

The future is not so close. At least not the future that cinema shows. A good example is Blade Runner’s temporality (Scott, 1982). The world created by Philip K. Dick, where people, androids and robots live together takes place in 2019. According to that, in five years from today, cars will fly, there  will be robots as able and intelligent as people and colonies of humans will live in other planets. We know this is not going to happen because there is not that technology yet. It is a fact that science progresses slower than imagination. While writers and filmmakers build all kind of artificial worlds with words, images and sounds, scientists make experiments to find partial answers to our big questions.

Super technological humanity is further that we thought. What do we need to live in another planet? To create androids? What is it necessary to reproduce cells and to create human beings? We went to the moon but we have never been in another planet. Our major achievement has been sending a robot to Mars. Clearly, it was a big advance, but it is still far from the possibility to establish a human colony“off-world”.

Androids are a big topic too. Complex robots are part of production chains at factories, and there are robots able to help doctors to operate patients who are thousands of miles away from their hospitals. But they are machines. The artificial life that exists now is far from any kind of sensible and sensitive automata that could be mistaken for a person. The creation of life requires that scientists achieve to control cells growth and regulate its working. At this moment, there’s only tissues and organs made in laboratories.  

The point is that the major part of scientific results are not so spectacular -like fliying cars- and don’t conduce, in an immediate way, to revolutionary invents. So, the dystopias based on technology are very enthusiastic about the speed of developments. In any case, the world that moving films show is not just around the corner.

 

Technology is not a threat to the future. The real dangers for human kind are two: inequality and ignorance. If each person could enjoy of a portion of resources (food, water, clean air, a good home and opportunities to study and work) we would live in a perfect society. But every time privileges are concentrated in fewer hands. So, in the future, very few people will have all they need to live. Their lives will be comfortable and longer than they are now. The bad news are: the rest of the population –the poor people- will live in worse conditions due to environmental degradation. So, the perspective doesn’t depend on technology, it depends on economic and political system. Besides, how many people are able to understand scientific developments? They are a minority. A little group of educated persons makes science while the rest live under the tyranny of that knowledge.  

The only way to have a different planet will be starting to think about common good.  But it doesn’t look like it is going to happen in the near future.

Óscar Eduardo Rendón Cardona

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DALLAS BUYER´S CLUB

If we make an overview regarding several aspects of Dallas Buyer´s Club movie we are going to find that is a really good portrait about two themes that have been crucial and polemic during the last three decades and it is on this way in which the movie results interesting and remarkable.

One of the themes is the discrimination against LGBT community and all the stereotypes and prejudices that society has, thinking that every member of this community is sick, promiscuous and lives in a complete sexual disorder. You can see while you are watching the movie a representation of a fear not only for a disease but for difference and life styles not according with the usual cultural code.

Another theme is the manipulation made by big companies that subtly handle and control our lives with their products and services; they make us to think that we really need them and that they are just doing a good work to benefit society but they only want to head our behavior with one purpose: earning more money.

An opinion about technical aspects would result kind of redundant because the truth is that nowadays is not difficult to make a film with respectable visual and sound quality. What is really difficult is to build a good story with a good balance between reality and created conflict and this is absolutely one of the best achievements of the movie.

Personal Opinion: Dallas Buyers Club- Carlos A. Calderon Valencia

DALLAS BUYERS CLUB

By Carlos Calderon

In my opinion, Dallas Buyers’ Club is a very realistic and interesting movie which shows the most extreme human behavior of a man suffering from AIDS. Its plot encourages you to be braver and makes you feel that there is no point in blaming yourself for your mistakes, but you should do your best to take advantage of the situations you are living, no matter how bad it can look.

Though, there is something about the movie I did not really like; if you ask me, showing naked scenes was not necessary at all to convey how chauvinist Ron was. I mean, Showing nude people is absolutely normal, there is no anything wrong with it, but those scenes were too much, they were useless.

Blade Runner by Carolina Mejía Gómez

BLADE RUNNER
Blade Runner is a futuristic movie where the humanity's advanced in a way that is able to create androids almost humans. The only difference is that androids don't have feelings and own memories. But there was a kind of androids capable to develop feelings with the time and some of them can be implanted with any memories to get some coherence with their reality. After this, the meaning  of "human" would be confuse because would be difficult to find differences between both of them.

The androids in the movie were used as humans slaves in other planets, but a group of them were revealed in front of the humanity and could run away to earth. Blade Runner is an special agent who has the mission to get them and kill them. At earth planet all seems artificial, big buildings, ships, darkness and humidity and all this looks like a criticism about the idea of progress that humanity actually have. This portray the planet that we can have in a few years if we don't respect our origin.

This movie can be a message that tell us that our progress and technology can destroy who we are. We some times don't think about the consequences and something that looks awesome first time can kill us with the time without any notice.  The humanity in the movie have loose their identity following their raciocini and forgot that they are part of the planet trying to have the control with technology and at the end the humans finish as slave of his invents.