So thinking back to that idea, I'm starting to realize that what I want can actually be simplified into words. I want to see a film - successfully - tackle the question; What does it mean to be human? And I don't mean in a really specific way, I want to see a film establish a framework, a visual framework, that allows for its viewers to begin to think about that question for themselves. Personally I don't think its a question that can or ever will be answered, in fact I don't think its a question that's ever meant to be answered, at least in an all encompassing way. I think its a question that's complete subjective.
But you know what else is subjective? Experience. And thus I think its a question that's meant to be experienced. No one can tell you what being human means, you have to experience it for yourself. Its a circular idea, but its all we have, we are living the human experience. This is it, we touch, see, taste, smell, feel, and although we may be unable to comprehend, we experience. Its why we love literature, art, films, etc... (I only came to this realization
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Its what Matriculated explores. It shows us the transmogrification, assimilation, and absolute conversion of a machine to a human, or at least the essence of what is human (which is by itself also a metaphor for the shift one experiences, when they escape their rigid form of thinking, and open their mind - which is idiomatically referred to as stepping out of the proverbial Platonic cave). The short clip represents the human experience as this beautifully abstract collage of colours, that give off an almost spiritual aura, and the machine loves it so much, that in the end, it doesn't want to leave. Similarly, in Lois Lowry's "The Giver", its argued (or at least according to my interpretation) that experience gives colour to life - or if you haven't watched the movie or read the book, experience is what gives life to life, its what makes life worth