How did the text help you look at the film differently? Do you agree with the author of the handout?

When the author was talking about the movie, I agreed with him at certain points however, I did disagree with him too. One time when I disagreed with him is when he stated that, "the threat of violence is essential to the smooth running of the rational state." This didn't make any sense to me because when I think of fear, I think of mass hysteria. most people can not act rationally when they are faced with fear, and we are more irrational when faced with violence.

One thing that I did agree with was when he said: "individualism is merely irrational selfishness." I think that when Hellen's boyfriend was going to give away the location of Klatu, he was only thinking of himself and not the world as a whole or even for Klatu. In this movie, the people were extremely selfish and I think that is sometimes the case in real life too. People in this movie really showed the need for eveyone to come together and be under the protection of the "general will" according to Rousseau. He also said that "science in general isn't bad, but it is when used in an irrational and irresponsible manner." This is one of his quotes that I do not agree with. I think that this is deffinetly a conservative veiw on this movie. It really sounds like something the military would say. I think that scince can only help, even if it leads us to more dangerous weapons and gets up in worse situations, the only way were going to over come that is if we keep moving forward.