Primer, LIMBO, & War of the Worlds

The three pieces covered this week were similar in regards to technology. Primer regarded science and time travel, The War of the Worlds radio broadcast was an audio book detailing a Martian attack, and LIMBO was a computer game with an eerie setting and of course a giant spider. The movie Primer was definitely a mind bender. I do not run into many confusing movies but this one was certainly one of them. It involved time travel, doubles, and potentially murder. Regarding the demo of the game LIMBO, I’d say it is well done.  From the section I played the graphics were simple but effective. I had to figure out my characters moves, my end goal, and each challenge provided a new learning experience. The War of the Worlds radio broadcast brought me back a few decades with the music and sound quality. The broadcast sounded real, like it was a music station repeatedly interrupted by breaking news from different accounts detailing the Martians. My favorite part was the destruction of the aliens by the disease and bacteria on earth. It shows our evolution was effective in its own way. What I thought was very interesting was a few years back I was told that when this radio broadcast was made, some people actually though this broadcast was real. It created a frenzy that was supposedly fixed by an announcement stating the broadcast was a story not a real report.