“Pay It Forward,” a traditional hollywood movie, did not disappoint my expectations, even though I was disappointed a lot while watching it. I always believe that there must be some big changes in it explicitly or implicitly when the novel is adapted for the silver screen of Hollywood, especially when starring Oscar winners. Mimi Leder, the direcor of the film, would try to avoid the traditioal Hollywood style by killing Travor, a hero. However, she rather created her movie more hollywood and her hero more heroic by gathering people, even murderers, holding candles to mourn in front of Travor’s at the end of the movie. I have nothing to say if you say that at least you are so impressed by this aimless tearjerker and feel like doing something. I just want to ask you, “What do you expect for people to do for a change after they have witnessed the death of an innocent boy, Huh?”

I suggest to forget about the movie itself. I mean its plot or the director’s original intention. (Did she have something to say?) I am pretty much sure that “Pay It Forward” does not suggest any hopeful view. But I, as a future teacher, dare propose that teachers try to do something to change themselves. They do not have to make the world a better place like Mr. Simonet’s project. Teachers already recognize what is wrong in the education, and many of them know what they have to do for a change whether it’s possible or not. But a few of them try and will, even though they are finally frustrated by the obstacles, an impregnable system which cannot be overthrown by the endeavor of a few. Nevertheless, I just hope that teachers prepare themselves for a change in the system. It does not have to be a national or sensational movement like that of “Pay It Forward.” I just want it to be the first step. Please do not be discouraged!

“Pay It Forward” deceives the innocent viewers by exploiting fake tears and fake gravity, planting the impractical dreams in their mind. They may think and believe that doing good things for others may reverberate through the world and finally make the world a better place. But that is totally wrong because I know that they are too weak to do anything after watching this ridiculous film. Please do not waste your time watching this film. Instead, you had better watch “Spider Man.” At least you can see Tobey Maquire and Kirsten Dunst flying around.

Like Freud’s theory, the memory plays a very important role in a human being’s whole life. Some people can develop their abilities through good experiences and memories. However some people can ruin their lives by painful memories such as discrimination, violence, or mistreat, without knowing that sometimes these are false memories. It is very dangerous to instill some ideas or memories constrainedly, because it can cause harmful effects. In Paul Verhoeven’s “Total Recall” adapted from Philip K. Dick’s “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale,” the identity is threatened because of the collision between the implanted memory and the real memory.

Replicants of “Blade Runner” are the perfect robot ever created. They are reasonable enough to suffer from their recognition of artificial existence. Replicants as slaves have felt agony through their whole life spans, four years of slavery experiences and the fake childhood memories. They struggled to gain salvation from “God of biomechanics,” a greedy and mere human being. (They, robots, always wished to be a real human being. David in A.I. did, too) And in case of Rachel, one of the perfect replicants, she has felt so painful because she recognized that her childhood memories were a fake which had been infused into her. Then why on earth did the creator of the replicants give human-like androids emotions and memories for all that they are created to be used and served for only human being? Do they, machines, need to feel and think?

I would like to find the answers of these questions from Paul Verhoeven’s, “Robocop.” One policeman was killed and recreated into indestructible android in order to protect human security. However, he soon could regain humanity through the recollection of his oblivious experiences and memories. He is resurrected from a machine to a human being. He has the aim to attain and to live, even if it is a revenge. He can feel and think just like replicants in the world of “Blade Runner.” But his memories are totally different from these of replicants.

The motto of the Tyrell Corporation is to make androids more human than human. However, a robot that is so close to human being is finally a failure because artificial and fragmental memories cannot change androids into real human being. Nevertheless, I cannot erase the thought that replicants are much closer to human than human beings, because the existence of human being is also doubtful, supposing that Deckard is a replicant. Do not believe what you can see right now!