Q1. Both movies Gattaca and Wall-E showed different points of views for the future. In Gattaca nearly every person is born by eugenics and everything in his or her life revolves around what ones genetics are. If a person does not have the right genetics they are outcasts and considered undesirables. However, in Wall-E things are grim for earth. Humans have destroyed earth and are now living on a ship in space. These views of the future are much different as Gattaca presents a world that is still intact, technology is advanced, and mainly concerned about DNA. While Wall-E presents a world that is filled with trash and the population is obese who only care about themselves.
In Wall-E the earth is completely covered in trash from the humans …show more content…
There are several ethical dilemmas brought up in District 9. One of the biggest ones is “racism” or what I would call speciesism. When the aliens first arrive to South Africa they are to live in district 9 but after about 20 years MNU wants to transfer them into a new camp to live in. The aliens are treated like utter dirt since the day they arrived on earth. They are segregated into slums called district 9 were they are confined to during nearly the whole movie. They are considered less intelligent than the humans and have violent tendencies. The humans do not think the “prawns” are capable of being anything other than a worker bee and often look down on the aliens, speaking ill of them. Which is surprising to me as the aliens have much more advanced technology compared to the humans in the movie. However, all of this lines up with stereotypical racism/specieism. The ethical question that is asked in this movie is whether or not society is responsible for just their members (humans) or all members including foreign (such as aliens). The humans in the movie did not really claim much responsibility for anyone but the humans themselves. In light of this choice it caused social conflicts such as racism/specieism as discussed before. They aliens were not taken care of or integrated into society, which made them outsiders. When it came time to move them to a new camp the tensions escaladed from this hostility between humans and aliens. I believe that the humans should have let the aliens join their society from the start to prevent all this from happening because nothing good comes from segregating one society from another. I think the film bring this up in a way to make the viewer consider how segregation and racism effects a society. Especially because it is set in South Africa where the apartheid had occurred around the same time as when the aliens arrived on earth in the
In Wall-E the earth is completely covered in trash from the humans …show more content…
There are several ethical dilemmas brought up in District 9. One of the biggest ones is “racism” or what I would call speciesism. When the aliens first arrive to South Africa they are to live in district 9 but after about 20 years MNU wants to transfer them into a new camp to live in. The aliens are treated like utter dirt since the day they arrived on earth. They are segregated into slums called district 9 were they are confined to during nearly the whole movie. They are considered less intelligent than the humans and have violent tendencies. The humans do not think the “prawns” are capable of being anything other than a worker bee and often look down on the aliens, speaking ill of them. Which is surprising to me as the aliens have much more advanced technology compared to the humans in the movie. However, all of this lines up with stereotypical racism/specieism. The ethical question that is asked in this movie is whether or not society is responsible for just their members (humans) or all members including foreign (such as aliens). The humans in the movie did not really claim much responsibility for anyone but the humans themselves. In light of this choice it caused social conflicts such as racism/specieism as discussed before. They aliens were not taken care of or integrated into society, which made them outsiders. When it came time to move them to a new camp the tensions escaladed from this hostility between humans and aliens. I believe that the humans should have let the aliens join their society from the start to prevent all this from happening because nothing good comes from segregating one society from another. I think the film bring this up in a way to make the viewer consider how segregation and racism effects a society. Especially because it is set in South Africa where the apartheid had occurred around the same time as when the aliens arrived on earth in the