The tension built in a science fiction film is usually based on the real-life concern or the foreseeable dystopian future, thus making us reflect on our actions in real life. The Machine City in the reading attracts my attention on whether it is a future that we want. Le Corbusier once said, ‘A house is a machine for living in.’ Modern architecture in the metropolitan city, such as Hong Kong, are highly functionalist. Making them very similar to the Machine City. Shots of construction sites shown in the film show the rapid and automatic tempo of the city. While the technology seems to be very advanced and beneficial to humans, a darker side of the story approaches. The city is not being vibrant anymore but rather turning into a prison or a factory, where everything is perfect but dull. The very presence of life with humanistic feelings has been disappearing. The analogy reflects how human has come along since industrialisation in the late 18th Century. The creativity and individuality of humans should be praised rather than perfectionism and homogeneity, so to look forward to a more fruitful and dynamic future.
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You have attempted to compare machines to buildings. Yet, do pay attention to the reading that most of it is focused on information systems. How does it correlate to architecture?