Saturday, April 2, 2016
Creepy and Weird
Be Right Back depicted just how powerful the theory of the uncanny valley truly is. If Martha's terrible circumstances were not a factor, it would reveal just how completely wrong the act of trying to recreate a human would be. It seems to me that recreating life or an imitation of life defies nature. And this defying of nature could lead to very big consequences. I'm very much opposed to how she dealt with the loss of her husband. I understand that she was undergoing a lot of difficulties and had an immense amount of pain but in the end she was just delaying and building up the amount of pain she had. By the end, she just had this physical representation of what she would never have again, Ash #2. I also do not agree with exposing her child to this "false" father. I know that she doesn't present him to her child as a father but when a child has the absence of a father, any familiar male figure tends to take that space as somewhat of a father figure.
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I agree with your opinion on Martha raising her child with Ash's robot taking the place of a father figure. I believe this could lead her daughter to have a misconception of how to interact with others. It could possibly lead her to be cold or lack intimacy and real emotions.
I believe it wouldn't have much of a affect on the daughter. The daughter understands that Ash 2.0 isn't human and is a robot. She isn't disconnect from the outside world with real people entirely.
The fact that Martha decided to follow through with her friend's suggestion of communicating with "Ash" after his death is a violation against nature and God. When someone goes against nature, the result aren't good for anyone. Her actions resulted in her living in bad faith for the rest of her life.
I definitely agree with you as far as the way she handled her husband's death. I understand that she misses him but part of being human is recognizing that we are not going to live forever and we have to be able to deal with the death of a loved one eventually. If she needed help coping with the loss of her husband, she should have gotten help from a professional, not from a robot look-alike of her husband.
I definitely agree with you as far as the way she handled her husband's death. I understand that she misses him but part of being human is recognizing that we are not going to live forever and we have to be able to deal with the death of a loved one eventually. If she needed help coping with the loss of her husband, she should have gotten help from a professional, not from a robot look-alike of her husband.
I definitely agree with your qualms towards how Martha handled the situation and I made a similar comment about how her child shouldn't have been exposed to this abomination of what's supposed to be a semblance to human life. It shows a huge degree of emotional immaturity to where she would rather continue to cling to this thing that obviously isn't her child's father and continue to expose it to her daughter. But at the same time, it does allow her daughter some closure. She would have never known what her father was like, but at least by this demented method she could se at a rudimentary level of how her father spoke and interacted with people. Even though the young a very impressionable, I don't think the daughter would develop the same affection that she would to a paternal figure he merely exemplifies a sort of memoir of the man she never met.
I definitely agree with your qualms towards how Martha handled the situation and I made a similar comment about how her child shouldn't have been exposed to this abomination of what's supposed to be a semblance to human life. It shows a huge degree of emotional immaturity to where she would rather continue to cling to this thing that obviously isn't her child's father and continue to expose it to her daughter. But at the same time, it does allow her daughter some closure. She would have never known what her father was like, but at least by this demented method she could se at a rudimentary level of how her father spoke and interacted with people. Even though the young a very impressionable, I don't think the daughter would develop the same affection that she would to a paternal figure he merely exemplifies a sort of memoir of the man she never met.
I do agree that Martha did not grieve in a healthy way. Instead, she became obsessed with technology in the hope that it would bring her dead husband back and give their unborn child a father. In the end, Ash#2 became just another thing in the attic that they only see during the holidays.
I do agree that Martha did not grieve in a healthy way. Instead, she became obsessed with technology in the hope that it would bring her dead husband back and give their unborn child a father. In the end, Ash#2 became just another thing in the attic that they only see during the holidays.
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