Monday, April 2, 2007

Conceiving Ada

3/4 of the class who saw this movie saw it as an intention to women. But the technological aspect of this movie is not so far fetched. The use of computers to go back in time and communicate with the past using certain energy. The woman wanted to talk to great think Ada Lovelace in order to continue her wondering through her unborn child.

Ada Lovelace was considered the first computer programmer, she had a love for learning and she complained that her body could not last as long as her passion to learn. When she was asked to have herself cloned, she refused, because she lost her family, her love, her own body, but her essence is all she had left and would part with it. This brings up the idea that we all sacrifice things for anything, but our essence, our humainty, is the one things we should keep sacred in ourselves.

The virtual sets used in the movie were pretty cheap but it gives the idea that you don't have to go anywhere to film in a certain place, of course the downside of this is that there is no real feeling of being there, no extra oomph in the experience. Conceiving Ada also had the great Timothy Leary in the movie, who also believed that computers were the new drug. This movie was pleasant at first, but I would only watched it again with my girlfriend.

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