Resident Evil Evaluation

Science. It's a very topic that can cause lots of controversy. Are there limits? Is science good or bad? Although we all have a right to free speech, sometimes not everyone wants to hear what other people have to say. That's why many people, (such as directors) use symbolism to get their points across. In this case, they used Zombies. I think the movies Resident Evil and 28 Days Later were both created, for entertainment, but to also question science and how its been perceived in reality.

Zombies. They're the living dead, and extremely fictional. In the movie Resident Evil, they're also a product of something going wrong with science. I can't help but wonder if this is on purpose. Could someone be trying to get a point across, maybe subliminally? Science is viewed today as something only extremely intelligent people should and would only be able to handle. When you ask most people about science, they talk about molecules and atoms, things we learn in school. There's another type of science though, a type of science that has benefit the world greatly in the past millennium, maybe even before. Science is always helping us discover new and interesting things to make help us live longer, stronger, and smarter. Some people don't believe that life should be tampered with that way. Finding cures for diseases are one thing, but trying to find a cure for death? Helping people and playing God are two totally different concepts. It's been agreed that Science needs control, and the movies Resident Evil, and 28 Days Later, sort of show (in a weird way) what would happen if science got out of control. Maybe not as extreme, but those movies, used for entertainment purposes, may also be telling us, "Hey. If you tamper with Science, this chaos could happen in the real world." In the movie 28 days later, their experiments were contained. The monkeys, who had the virus in them, were safely in cages under good security, but then one thing went wrong, they got out and all Hell broke loose. This is a metaphor, I think, for how science is portrayed in real life. It's fine as long as we keep it contained