Lecture 2

Lecture two held interesting things for discussion..but what interested me the most was the movie. I found all the information about communication and media studies really interesting..and the culture studies also!

But yes the movie had me rather interested...firstly its quite amazing to see how far cinema has evolved..that kind of movie was designed very similarly to the way i made a documentary on the industrial revolution for mod history last year - with photos and voice over, but i must say that the photos and the voice very much suited the topic and era it was set in. At first i didnt know whether it was a true story or not with a war like scene in paris..but as the movie progressed and went into detail about travelling into the past and future, i came to realise quite quickly that it was of course fictional.

I found it rather interesting that the way to travel into the past and future involved injections and medicine based ways, rather than the cliche 'time machine' which is commonly used in future travelling movies that are produced in today. The process seemed to be quite taxing on the mans body - almost torture like, with his body and facial expressions displaying those of pain. Something that really fascinated me about it was the features of the future beings. They looked rather star trekkish, with formations on their forehead and space looking suits, in a way it kind of made me laugh as this perception was more than likely based around the world as we know it to be today (although noticeably it is nothing like it was in the movie)
It was quite creative for the story to go into the past and future to look for resolutions to the problems they were faced with in regards to their wars etc where in most hollywood films they will try and overcome that kind of problem by themselves and find the answers through their own workings rather than trying to place another person or people in the past or future to remedy these kind of situations. During times like those, people would have considered reading up on what actions they would have taken in the past rather than trying to travel back in time to avoid it or travel forward to get a solution.

I dont quite understand the ending though..to me it was like he was going to be killed by those people anyways - but say the future took him, would it have just been a dream like state from the injections until he was killed anyway? And how would it be possible for the future to take hold of someones life and place it into the past - just for him to get killed by the same person anyway. To me the future summonsing him is kind of like the way todays society talks about "the light" when people are passing away and how there are people on the other side waiting for you to join another life - which is a rather christian way to ending the movie(Heaven like) which is pretty much the message i got from that part of the ending. You could also look at it from the point that no matter which decision he would have made someway or another he was going to die in time - whether it be the future world, the past or the present.