Hannah's HON 255 Blog

      I LOVE this movie so much!!! The cast does such an amazing job conveying the story to the audience and the plot sheds light to a problem that the human race will have to face one day. The cinematography and CGI elements of the film were incredible, and make the audience feel like they were in space with the crew. The star studded cast also did a  phenomenal job pulling the audience in, and keeping our attention throughout the movie. Matthew McConaughey is one of my favorite actors, and I think he does an amazing job showing all of the emotions that come with leaving behind your family for several years in order to save the human race. I also loved watching him and his approach in this movie because it is very different from his movies that I am more familiar with.      The blackhole scene is by far my favorite scene of the film and bends the minds of every person who watches the film. Connecting the fact that Cooper was Murph's "ghost" ...

     I really enjoyed watching "Ready Player One," and I remember seeing commercials a few years ago when the movie originally came out. The animation in this movie was unlike anything I've ever seen. The avatars looked so real, and The Oasis was so detailed. I would love to know more about the animation style and how they made these characters and different worlds so incredibly detailed. The main thing I loved about the movie was the soundtrack!!! I love how the movie was set in the future, but they used so many classic songs. It made the action scenes much more entertaining, and hooked me from the beginning of the movie!     It was crazy seeing how VR had essentially taken over the world. Considering our environmental situation and how technology is taking over society, this could be a reality for humans in the future. One thing that did not sit right with me was that humans just turned a blind eye to how they were the reason the planet was essentially de...

     "Ghost in the Shell" was definitely the most confusing movie to follow for me out of all of the movies we watched, but it interested me more after gaining some clarity. I had to do a little research about the major themes of the movie in order to better understand and analyze the movie, and the most interesting point i read about is how the movie explores the idea of humanity. When you live in a world where most are part human and part cyborg, where is the line drawn where you aren't considered human anymore? We see an identity crisis through Motoko's character; she doesn't feel entirely robotic, but she doesn't relate to other humans. A quote that resonated with me was, "T here are countless ingredients that make up the human body and mind, like all the components that make up me as an individual with my own personality. Sure, I have a face and voice to distinguish myself from others, but my thoughts and memories are unique only to me, and I carr...

      I have enjoyed watching the Star  Trek series' in class over the past two weeks! The main thing that stuck out to me in Star Trek: Discovery was that they included women as captain and commanders! This representation is so important in film and TV, and I really admire how they portrayed these important crew members as women of color. Both Captain Georgious and Commander Michael are portrayed a strong, smart, and powerful women who are fully capable of leading the U.S.S. Enterprise. Michael is part human and part Vulcan, so she always provides the most logical point of view, but her human emotions tend to get in the way of her rational thinking sometimes. Michael has a personal vendetta against Klingons because they killed her parents. When she sees the Klingons, she has more of an emotional response than a logical response which goes against her Vulcan nature. The entire episode is about Michael overcoming her emotions in order to work more efficiently as a cap...

    Watching the very first episode of the series Star Trek  was incredibly interesting! I love watching older television and film because of the simplicity of it. It isn't overloaded with special effects or CGI, and I feel that it's much more organic. Although the ship in this episode is much less advance as the Enterprise depicted in the movie, they were still very similar and I liked seeing how the film kept many ideas the same as the original series. The spaceships both had central captains chairs which highlighted the captains power, they both had the "beaming" teleportation technology, ray guns, and they were wearing the same iconic outfits. It was very interesting seeing the characters have to play their own main characters, and their characters disguised as Ms. Crater. It showed different sides to each of the actors and it made the episode much more engaging. The sets on the different planet and in the ship were incredibly detailed and were super interesting t...

    I thought Star Trek was a really enjoyable movie. I liked the humor, the action, the awesome sets, and the cast. I thought the technology displayed throughout the movie was really cool, and was depicted well. Almost everything in these massive spaceships had facial and voice recognition to allow crew members into specific areas throughout the ship. The most interesting form of technology was the "beaming" form of teleportation that was used throughout the movie. The characters would stand on top of a portal and "energize" themselves to another location outside of the ship. When Spock beams to the Vulcan planet to save his planet, beaming was the only way he could have gotten to his family in time before their planet was sucked into black hole. Without the beaming technology, Spock would have lost his entire family. Also when James Kirk and Sulu have to deactivate the device that was drilling a hole into the core of the Vulcan planet, they would have fallen ...

      I would personally take the red pill because I am the kind of person who pushes for change and wants to help other people. I fully recognize that taking the red pill and discovering that your body is being used as a battery to power artificial  intelligence and seeing the human world completely destroyed is a very traumatic experience, like the blue pill argued in class. I know some people would not be able to take it and are not prepared to see the truth, but is anyone ever truly ready to know a dark truth? Many of us experience traumatic experiences throughout are lives, and no one is ever prepared for trauma. When my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer, I was not prepared to receive that information whatsoever. Although that was an extremely traumatic experience, I would not have been able to provide the support and care for my mom if I wasn't informed on the severity of her illness. Taking the red pill or blue pill opens up the possibility of trauma, but a...