Everyone knows these kind of movies: A deadly Virus is created by mankind, released, and turns people into mindless, cruel, brutal and bloodthirsty creatures that can't be stopped.
In the Resident Evil Franchise the virus spreads in an underground research facility and then finds it's way out infecting a city first and then spreading over the whole world. There are only a few survivors led by Alice (Milla Jovovich). Together, they try to find a safe place and also try to fight the company that still runs experiments to strengthen the virus.
What's interesting about this is that Alice herself was an experiment, cells were injected and gave her new abilities. And it seems she is the only one that can find a way out of this mess. So basically, they fight experiments with an experiment, science versus science, mutation versus mutation. Humans technology destroys humanity, and only human technology can save them.
Of course there are many different shades that can be analyzed.
Science versus science?
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ReplyDeleteScience versus science is a common trope and fits, I think, nicely into Garrard's notion of "Cornucopianism." Sure, we'll make mistakes along the way, so the idea runs. It's just that our own human ingenuity will solve each problem.
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