There are limitations.

          The Fly is a science fiction horror film in the 1950’s. It was, at first, not really interesting. But when the conflict was introduced, the film progressed making it interesting and entertaining. The audience would keep wondering, why the wife killed the scientist, and why the fly was so important or would the wife be able to undo the scientist’s error. Those wonderings would keep the audience focused into the film.
The film, I believe, talks much about of science and scientists. It suggests, in my opinion, that scientists, at that period, were depicted as someone who would do everything to satisfy himself with his work. He is pictured as someone who is obsessed with his desired results and a perfectionist. As for the film, the scientist was inventing a machine which could teleport anything. At first, he succeeded on teleporting non-living things, but when he tried the machine to the cat, the machine had failed. He struggled to make an immunity to the cat and he eventually did it. But he was still not satisfied with just the cat, he wanted the machine to also teleport humans. He experimented on himself but unfortunately, he engaged himself into an accident. This is the main or the root of events on the film. It was emphasized that the scientist would not be satisfied until his machine would work on anything he put on his machine.
          The film is not only commentary on scientists, but also to the conduct of science. Science, in the film, was treated as an object of progression and as an object of regression. Science can bring comfort and convenience yet if one uses it improperly, it can bring misery. The scientist, in the film, was inventing the teleportation machine to bring convenience to the people, but because of his discontentment, science had brought to him an accident that eventually led to his death. The film, produced in 1950’s, mirrors how Science at that time was very much idolized and pictured as an instrument to limitless explorations. The film also implies that science is bounded with limitations.
          The film, I believe, is a play of morality. The scientist was to choose either to be satisfied with the machine or to continue developing it to achieve his desired success. This statement is synonymous to choosing either the enough one or the greater one. The scientist chose to achieve greater than what he could do and so he ended up suffering the consequences. He even sacrifice himself just to prove his work which is very immoral in accordance to the significance of a human body. It was obvious that the scientist had chosen to be greater than what is reality because he believed that science can make him powerful. But no, Science is used to bring comfort and not to satisfy people’s discontentment.


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Nikka Marie Sales