Benito Machine III

Forum #1 How is technology portrayed in Bendito Machine III?

What is this film suggesting are the ecological and social implications of an obsession or fixation on technology? Do the film’s characters have any choice in relation to their technologies? What are the characteristics of various technologies as portrayed in this film?

I am overwhelmed by all the different ideas expressed in the forum.  But the link added by Michael Costelo: http://www.sbs.com.au/dateline/story/related/aid/610/id/601347/n/E-Waste-Hell. It really made me think of how real is the ecological implication of technology!  At least in the film is inoffensive trash but in real life is not like that!  It is affecting lots of people.  I am wondering if the creators of technology are now considering the possibility of recycling their products.  I notice stores where they collect cell phones, and batteries.  From this point of view technology is not helping our environment.  There must be a way to go green!

I do not think the characters in the film had any choice in relation to their technology.  It was just one character always worried about having something new, or getting something new for his people.  Why just one?  Why the other characters did not argue about it?  It looked like a very submissive culture.

The characteristics of the various technologies presented in the film could be address from inoffensive, friendly to very evil! The first one just had some lights (the bull) just as decoration. Then came the radio, followed by the TV with different programs, different choices.  People seemed to like them.  But then, at the end the TV was evil.  People were so obsessive with technology that they could not see it was destroying them!