The gardener undergoes these experiments by the scientist and becomes smarter and smarter. By the end of the movie the gardener is extremely talented and is capable of things like mind-reading and telekinesis. Once the gardener becomes intelligent and capable of powerful things he also becomes increasingly angry due to effects of the experiments. The experiments conducted rely heavily on virtual reality. The gardener and the scientist both use this virtual reality world to escape the real world. The scientist does it for fun and exploration and searches it for ways to seek benefits for the human mind. The gardener becomes more and more into the virtual reality world and feels he is limited by the physical world. He begins conducting experiments on himself so that he may make the total transformation into the virtual reality world and leave his humanly body behind. This contrasts the scientist tremendously. The scientist wishes to use the virtual reality as a means of helping the body and the gardener sees it as a means of leaving the body and its limits behind.
The gardener becomes too powerful and angry towards the end of the movie and begins killing people. This breakdown and the overall deterioration of the people's lives involved with this technology gives an overall argument about how harmful technology can be to humans too concerned with it.
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Drew - This is a lot of plot summary - make sure that you focus your argument on rhetorical analysis for your final presentation. From your description, though, it looks like we are confronting a lot of familiar material from other texts in the class from body modification to the breakdown between reality and the virtual to sex and violence. One thing I find very interesting about the film, something that seems a bit hidden in your analysis so far is that the scientist is working to make him perfect - and in this way he becomes not only smarter but also (strangely enough) stronger and better looking - is he just learning to take care of himself or does this modification of the mind have an effect on the physical body? Also, the gardener does have a relationship with technology at the beginning of the movie because of his job (he made the lawnmower) - is the change in this relationship important to consider?
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