{"id":15054,"date":"2023-04-17T17:19:56","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T17:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/virtual-realities-ai-and-genetic-engineering-in-alejandro-amenabar-abre-los-ojos-1997-and-almodovars-la-piel-que-habito-2011\/"},"modified":"2023-04-17T17:19:56","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T17:19:56","slug":"virtual-realities-ai-and-genetic-engineering-in-alejandro-amenabar-abre-los-ojos-1997-and-almodovars-la-piel-que-habito-2011","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/virtual-realities-ai-and-genetic-engineering-in-alejandro-amenabar-abre-los-ojos-1997-and-almodovars-la-piel-que-habito-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Realities. AI and Genetic Engineering in Alejandro Amen\u00e1bar, Abre los ojos (1997) and Almod\u00f3var\u2019s La piel que habito (2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alejandro Amen\u00e1bar\u2019s Abre los ojos can be interpreted as a futuristic movie provided that this<\/p>\n

film is analyzed from the present, or the technological and digital innovations in the field of<\/div>\n
Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality and (La piel que habito) Genetic Engineering. The plot<\/div>\n
of this Amen\u00e1bar\u2019s film is simple. C\u00e9sar signs a contract with Life Extensions. It is a company<\/div>\n
that has the technology to create after-lives by recording past memories and recreating them<\/div>\n
through virtual reality. Despite of the fact the movie does not directly address Artificial<\/div>\n
Intelligence, it seems plausible to observe how it could be part of the technological<\/div>\n
explanation behind the company\u2019s service. <\/div>\n
Questions: <\/b>Observe the reasons why C\u00e9sar wants to change his life and discuss how Amen\u00e1bar\u2019s cinematic devices create an illusion that we are watching <\/span>a virtual life. Furthermore, you have to consider and discuss the ethical challenges implicit in <\/span>this tech story. Should we be able to pay for an after-life? What role governments have to <\/span>play in the face of the boundless possibilities that technologies might offer in our near posthuman future? Would you sign a contract with Life Extension? What are your reasons? If<\/span><\/div>\n
you decide to interpret La piel que habito, you should formulate the same questions but in<\/div>\n
regards to genetic engineering and stem cell research. This movie questions the possibility of<\/div>\n
modifying our cells so our skin does not age. Consider secondary bibliography to infer a<\/div>\n
gender approach to this film, as it seems to criticize a long-stablish tradition of science fiction<\/div>\n
genre, traditionally male oriented. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Need to use either of the sources I provided.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alejandro Amen\u00e1bar\u2019s Abre los ojos can be interpreted as a futuristic movie provided that this film is analyzed from the present, or the technological and digital innovations in the field of Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality and (La piel que habito) Genetic Engineering. The plot of this Amen\u00e1bar\u2019s film is simple. C\u00e9sar signs a contract with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[1121],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/15054"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/15054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=15054"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=15054"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=15054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}