[READING RESONSE] CARL ABBOTT AND M. CHRISTINE BOYER

Science-fiction has always played a strong resonance with the architecture in reality. It is unsurprising to see how familiar the architecture in film looks as creativity still has to be based on reality. For instance, the repetitive buildings in Inception are taken reference from cities in the modern world Meanwhile, the future is also projected through film. M. Christine Boyer depicted Cyber City in 1992.  In the 21st century, cyber cities have swept across the globe, and become more prevalent during the pandemic. Films have given different possibilities of our future in which our behaviours are pivotal to. In the tutorial, we have discussed the reason that most sci-fi films seem to depict a degraded future. In my opinion, the after-effect of sadness is stronger than that of happiness so that we usually remember what triggers our negative emotion, whereas the dimmed future depicted also sets as a warning for human beings.

— Wong Lok Yu Angel 3035794375

1 thought on “[READING RESONSE] CARL ABBOTT AND M. CHRISTINE BOYER

  1. Putri Santoso says:

    Good points on the relationship between sci-fi films and architecture in reality as well as how the world is connected in the cyber-realm now more than ever. You also mentioned that Boyer’s piece was dated. Maybe you could explore more about how far deep are we in reality to Boyer’s cyber-cities nowadays. Would her article perform as a prophetical piece today? Or maybe she has opened a new discourse and got them to be followed up throughout time? To conclude, you could also take a closer look at how would this new level of connectivity relates to the future degradation depicted in many films?

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