This has me thinking about the Borg from Star Trek. Everyone is assimilated, and all differences are incorporated. Though I don’t remember it explicitly mentioned, I imagine that the tech involved makes for changes in Borg senses that eliminate blindness and deafness.
They seem to be without physical weakness, their collective consciousness being both a strength and a flaw. The idea of being submerged in a collective conscious is horrifying to me. I’m just wondering, I don’t have any conclusions. Thank you for helping me consider new (to me) ideas.
The Borg seem pretty clearly a reference to fears of communism? Communism is often presented as being submerged in a hive mind (like Invasion of the Body Snatchers.)
I have to admit, I didn’t see any of this in the movie. I just viewed it as kind of a popcorn movie with a different twist. Will have to rethink. Now, Blade Runner was the kind of movie that got into all kinds of deeper meanings, though the schlocky ending pissed me off (the director’s cut was so much better). Same with A.I. That tacked on ending ruined the movie.
I don’t think the filmmakers were thinking super deeply. Science fiction has just been obsessed with colonialism and invasion for 150 years or more. So when you tap into that, you kind of can’t help addressing it, even if you don’t think you are, or aren’t thinking about it very hard.
Mainly what I really loved about A Quiet Place was that everyone actually spoke ASL comfortably, relaxedly, realistically. For once. For a change. But yeah the whole CI thing was super cringe.
“swarms of tentacles and erogenous fleshy weirdness.”
I want to write like that!
Really nice parsing of complex issues and norms.
Thanks!
This has me thinking about the Borg from Star Trek. Everyone is assimilated, and all differences are incorporated. Though I don’t remember it explicitly mentioned, I imagine that the tech involved makes for changes in Borg senses that eliminate blindness and deafness.
They seem to be without physical weakness, their collective consciousness being both a strength and a flaw. The idea of being submerged in a collective conscious is horrifying to me. I’m just wondering, I don’t have any conclusions. Thank you for helping me consider new (to me) ideas.
The Borg seem pretty clearly a reference to fears of communism? Communism is often presented as being submerged in a hive mind (like Invasion of the Body Snatchers.)
I have to admit, I didn’t see any of this in the movie. I just viewed it as kind of a popcorn movie with a different twist. Will have to rethink. Now, Blade Runner was the kind of movie that got into all kinds of deeper meanings, though the schlocky ending pissed me off (the director’s cut was so much better). Same with A.I. That tacked on ending ruined the movie.
I don’t think the filmmakers were thinking super deeply. Science fiction has just been obsessed with colonialism and invasion for 150 years or more. So when you tap into that, you kind of can’t help addressing it, even if you don’t think you are, or aren’t thinking about it very hard.
Well put. You definitely see that in some sci-fi movies, but it didn’t hit me for this one.
That movie sucked and now I know why.
Mainly what I really loved about A Quiet Place was that everyone actually spoke ASL comfortably, relaxedly, realistically. For once. For a change. But yeah the whole CI thing was super cringe.
Brilliant and instructive