Contextual studies

1. Industrialization is the process of social and economic change whereby a human group is transformed from a pre-industrial society into an industrial one. It is a part of a wider modernization process, where social change and economic development are closely related with technological innovation, particularly with the development of large-scale energy and it metallurgy production. It is the extensive organization of an economy for the purpose of manufacturing. Industrialization also introduces a form of philosophical change, where people obtain a different attitude towards their perception of nature. In our world today we are controlled buy machines like we once controlled them, they force us to build more and more and force out any natural things that can sustain our lives they threaten our wellbeing. We are forced to rely on machinery since its part of our every day lives.



2. This statement relates to each film because it shows how we rely on technology today to live our modern lives and we act as if we cant live without it because in this modern age technology is still growing and is everywhere we go. The films show this buy showing how men rely on technology to sustain life in the city, but like all machinery it needs man to maintain them to keep them running. In both of the movies using and maintaining technology/machinery which becomes a routine of daily living the people do in there lives and nowadays people are in a routine using technology but this constant routine is going to continue in years to come due to new technological machinery still developing. Even though these films were in the past it still shows how technology has taken over our lives and is still endlessly advancing today. Walter Benjamin makes this issue clear by saying and I quote “For the last twenty years neither matter nor space
nor time has been what it was from time immemorial.”


















Essay
I ROBOT


This essay shows the comparison between two films, “I Robot” and “Metropolis.” The first paragraph will explain the themes between the films. The second paragraph will show the similarities in visual and narrative qualities. The third paragraph will show the differences in visual and narrative qualities and the forth paragraph will conclude the comparison of the two films.

This paragraph will show the themes between I Robot and Metropolis, in the movie metropolis there is the love theme, which becomes one of the main focal points in the movie, this is exactly the same as in I Robot there is a feeling of love been passed through the movie as it goes on. Another theme that is also apparent is the hero theme, there is always somebody trying to save humankind and will do anything to prove he is right and to save the people who he loves as well, this theme is also joined by the villain theme because both movies also posses this cause they both have people in it who want to rebel against the system to harm humankind, and which in the end the villain fails and there is always a hero at the end of the day.

This paragraph will show the similarities in visual and narrative qualities. In both of the films they show how man is a slave to new technology in our world today, machines form a big part of our lives and will do what it takes to become more dependent on them because robots can do so much more but always at a cost.

This paragraph will show the differences in visual and narrative qualities. These to films have very similar ways of portraying there views bout the machine world and who the villains are and who the heros are but a major difference is the quality of the way it is shown in I Robot hi quality film shows the detail and the intensity of the film where as Metropolis relies on strange music and very strange movement in the film, which this shows how technology has grown.

In the conclusion between the two movies I have shown the similarities and differences between each film.