The Fly

Although special effects were poor and the acting was pretty terrible, the idea behind the film is rather brilliant. The "no" that is screamed at the end is so mind boggling that I can still picture the Doctor being devoured by the spider slowly.

I think the fact that the Doctor's life hangs in the finding of a fly shows some symbolism. The wife talks about how the world might not be ready for a teleporter and how everything is moving so fastly. With the Doctor turning into a fly it seems as if the film is echoing that sometimes in order to find humanity amongst these technical chaos we must resort to primitive actions where technology is virtually useless. if anything, the pursuit of the fly shows that technology hinders the importance of life. The fly is a symbol of the Doctor's life, but the family has difficult catching him, largely because of technical things in the way. I think the scene where the fly is trapped in the window shows this. The fly sits in the window with the boy on one side and the mother quickly approaching from the other side. Life is captured by technology and the mother and boy come close to capturing it and holding it forever. Yet, at the last second the fly breaks free from the window, a n offspring of human technology, and is able to soar high into the sky seeking freedom.