The Research Continues!

To further complete our research, we decided to research our case studies for Sci-Fi thriller movies. We picked out 2 movies: Inception(2010) and The Matrix(1999).

The Matrix portrays a dystopian future in which people are in a simulated reality known as “The Matrix,” which is created by sentient machines to control the human population, while their bodies’ heat and electrical activity are used as an energy source. The protagonist, Thomas Anderson (also known as “Neo”) is a computer programmer living a double life and believes something is wrong with reality and is taunted repeatedly by online encounters with the cryptic phase “the Matrix.” Trinity, an infamous hacker, contacts him saying that a man named Morpheus can explain the matrix. Neo meets with Morpheus to which Morpheus offers him a red pill that allows him to find out the truth behind the matrix, or the blue pill that will return him to his old life. This film is considered to be a Sci-Fi thriller because there is an alternate reality, use of technology, it takes place in a some sort of futuristic world, and there is presence of good and evil.

Inception portrays extractors who perform corporate espionage using an experimental military technology of there targets and remove information deemed as valuable through a shared dream world. Their latest target Saito, a japanese business man reveals that he arranged their mission himself for some sort of test: planting an idea into one's subconscious, or "inception." This production is considered to be a science fiction because of the concept of dream sharing- it connects their subconsciousness so that subjects can experience the exact same dream space and they can build that dream space themselves by visualizing a specific location.

Hopefully we have learned a couple things from these case studies. I think we learned that great sci-fi movies have very original ideas that also contain some sort of psychological aspect within them. We are slowly starting to come up with a more established idea, so stay tuned!


Citations:
Shmoop Editorial Team. "Inception: Genre." Shmoop. Shmoop University, 11 Nov. 2008. Web. 18 Mar. 2017.
"Inception (2010)." IMDb. IMDb.com, n.d. Web. 18 Mar. 2017.
"Why Is Matrix a Sci-fi Movie?" Yahoo! Answers. Yahoo!, n.d. Web. 18 Mar. 2017.