Primary Blog Question
When compared, the two film clips help illuminate a key question for this course: How has our relationship to technology changed over time?

The films demonstrate that, over the course of the 20th century, technology has become insidious to our culture. The 60's version of "The Time Machine" show that people within the film mock the main character's fascination with technology and with inventions while in the second version his interest in technology is less pronounced than his relationship with Emma. One could potentially argue that because we assume a fascination with technology, a version produced in the early 2000's could not necessarily need to show the protagonist's interest or fascination with technology. Honestly, the two clips we viewed almost seemed like different movies. The first version was pretty clearly focused on the notion of time, introducing the protagonist as a man of science, an inventor, someone who is motivated and driven by curiosity. It highlights the actual time machine and the focus/interest in evolving technologies much more than clearly than the later version. The later version, instead, focuses almost solely on the relationship between the protagonist and his lady love, Emma. It almost positions the plot as entirely motivated by Emma's death. Without her death, would the main character even have created the time machine? Rather than being motivated by intellectual curiosity, the protagonist is motivated by love and despair.