Steven Brence
11-06-2011, 05:58 PM
1. How does the film represent the relationship between humanity and technology? In what ways does that relationship qualify or transform the relationship between subjects and objects? Is there commentary on that distinction perhaps in the repeated images, within the film, of the Earth in relation to the Moon?
2. What sort of transformation(s) does Sam go through while on the Moon? In what ways and by what means is that transformation controlled by Lunar Corp.?
3. What sort of transformation does Gerty go through? What drives that transformation? How does Gerty understand himself and that transformation? Does the film agree with him? Do you?
4. Is Gerty a "person"? Does Sam regard him as such? Is Sam a person? Does Gerty regard him as such? Are these issues connected?
5. What role do Sam's memories/artifacts from Earth play in his present self-understanding?
6. How are business corporations and work represented? Is the film accurate in respect to present realities in those representations?
7. What does the film have to say in regard to the way technology mediates communication? Does it offer any insights into the way our relationships are conditioned by communication that is similarly mediated?
2. What sort of transformation(s) does Sam go through while on the Moon? In what ways and by what means is that transformation controlled by Lunar Corp.?
3. What sort of transformation does Gerty go through? What drives that transformation? How does Gerty understand himself and that transformation? Does the film agree with him? Do you?
4. Is Gerty a "person"? Does Sam regard him as such? Is Sam a person? Does Gerty regard him as such? Are these issues connected?
5. What role do Sam's memories/artifacts from Earth play in his present self-understanding?
6. How are business corporations and work represented? Is the film accurate in respect to present realities in those representations?
7. What does the film have to say in regard to the way technology mediates communication? Does it offer any insights into the way our relationships are conditioned by communication that is similarly mediated?