Westworld (1973) Ideologies
“Westworld” (1973) explores the
ideology that human beings can create human-like complicated machines able to
do anything to make their lives more easy and pleasurable, wrongfully believing
it’s risk-free. The film presents how the greed o further explore what advanced
technology may allow us to do drives us to develop ambitious projects without
considering any repercussion it might outcome if that technology ever gets out
of control. In this movie, the whole concept of Delos was to offer people the
chance to make their fantasies come true and have their dream vacation, within
a safe environment (the program was set to keep human beings out of danger, so
they could kill androids—for example—but it could not happen otherwise); this,
as well had a lucrative purpose for the company. However, the androids were so
complicated machines that when malfunctions started to emerge, Delos administrators/company members realized they did
not know how to fix it. As a matter of fact, they initially ignored safety
signs when something was clearly going wrong; they just care about the lots of
money they were making with Delos , and
therefore they were unable to control it when incidents continue to happen more
often. The androids started to act at they own will, even against their respective
programmed function they were designed to. People got killed…and still the
company’s economic interests were more important than people’s safety.
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