Now that I'm learning more about digital media and how it functions in our society, I wonder when we will slowly become victims of our own discoveries?
It is becoming more of an accepted idea to frequently to submit our information for others to log and use every time we visit a site or give our email to be apart of a new app. The reality was there once watching a new film called The Congress. The film is about an actress who's career is over, but has one chance to revitalize it forever. The way to revitalize it would be to scan herself. Everything that makes her her would be in a computer file to use for future movies. Just think if we scanned all the influential actors and actresses before they passed to keep them in roles for today? Could you see a conflict within yourself when doing this?
In a sense this movie represents how we are living today regarding our connection with social media and information sharing. If we decide to give up or scan our information to certain sites or show too much information of ourselves on social networking, are we basically doing the same thing in the film?
Check out the trailer and the website for The Congress and hopefully you can see the detailed animation on the big screen.
