2001: A Space Odyssey: Movie Analysis

Many people depend on technology without knowing its potential effects. People tend to develop their mind as technology’s progressed. They want to be on the same level as technology’s improved. However, they do not fully understand its consequences. Since technology brings conveniences, people tend to rely on it. The state of a “progress” is determined based on how a person measures the spectrum of where it stays. Progressivism cannot proceed to infinity because going to the extreme ends of the spectrum will result as its downside in consequences. A person needs to know how to use technology wisely; otherwise, it will turn into disadvantages. In “2001: A Space Odyssey” movie by Stanley Kubrick, he describes that people start to be more aggressive

They become less interacted with each other emotionally. People are starting to rely on technology more than anything. They become influenced by the advanced technology. In “2001: A Space Odyssey”, Dr Floyd makes a videophone call from the moon to his daughter who is on the earth (Kubrick). In the video, the daughter is not that attach to his father. The daughter seems a little bit distant and not emotionally close to her father. The whole conversation is short and only the father is talking. Similarly, in “The Machine Stops by E.M Forster, Vashti used video chat to call her son, Kuno. However, Kuno wants warmth and affection from his mother. In this society, they have become isolated and “the clumsy system of public gatherings had been long since abandoned; neither Vashti nor her audience stirred from their rooms” (Forster). Forster emphasizes that living in advanced technology makes human stay away from the closest ones and neglect what’s really important to them. They think that technology can keep their children closer to them by being able to talk with each other while ignoring the fact that the physical gap still exists between them. Since they communicate through a video chat, there is no emotion or close feeling involved. There is no deep affection within each other. The intimacy between the father and daughter, the mother and son could have fallen