Algol tells the story of a man who by chance met an alien that gave him a perpetual machine that can give infinite power to help electrify the world and help them move forward of their back-breaking coal work. Time had passed, AND the man who had relieved the coal workers, is faced by the upheaval of the now poorer workers AND his menacing son who wants to take the plant all to himself. Only his former lover can break things back and bring back the past they once lived.
A Science Fiction that is anti-development, which is new but also confounding. Personally, it is heavily implied that no new development happened since the 'discovery' of the perpetual machine since I do not think anyone wants to go back coal mining for any amount of money.
It makes the intention of the lover ultimately dense. She thinks the machine makes everyone unhappy because it makes them poor? Clearly, I had the lens of the modern world, in that when a new technology rises, some work will die but ultimately another work will be birthed. The Anti-Technology story just contradicts itself, especially it tries to spin it as pro-Work and somewhat Marxist. When it was initially shown how unhappy was the workers down the shaft to begin with.
A lose lose situation that I do not think the writers or the directors thought through. Not recommended.
A Science Fiction that is anti-development, which is new but also confounding. Personally, it is heavily implied that no new development happened since the 'discovery' of the perpetual machine since I do not think anyone wants to go back coal mining for any amount of money.
It makes the intention of the lover ultimately dense. She thinks the machine makes everyone unhappy because it makes them poor? Clearly, I had the lens of the modern world, in that when a new technology rises, some work will die but ultimately another work will be birthed. The Anti-Technology story just contradicts itself, especially it tries to spin it as pro-Work and somewhat Marxist. When it was initially shown how unhappy was the workers down the shaft to begin with.
A lose lose situation that I do not think the writers or the directors thought through. Not recommended.