Noah Response

Noah demonstrations the extreme extent that our lives revolve around technological devices. As displayed in the film, these devices and the ways they depict conversations and relationships, actually begin to dictate the ways in which one interprets what others are saying. Noah seems to make a lot of assumptions about the state of his relationship through the language his girlfriend used (or did not use). To me it seemed as though his interpretations of their words had always been completely made up in his mind and interpreted through what was on the screen in a different way than he would have in a face-to-face conversation.

In the new world of technology conversations are no longer two-sided. Noah speaks with Amy, but at the same time is influenced by his friend over Facebook who seems to make the situation worse. These conversations become a lot less personal and so have our relationships with these changes.

Feelings and emotions are felt for characters that we never got to know, with the entirety of the video only spanning 18 minutes. We can determine what we deem important about the main character Noah through his profile. Within the context of the screen it seems as though we might even know less about our own “friends” than the imaginary character Noah, while only getting to know him through his online presence.

The concept of the cyborg, as introduced to us in Slack’s article, become clear through the film Noah as the screen stands in for Noah’s body and mind. Relationships and made (and broken) through technology, which becomes easier through the use of video and instant messaging. Relationships change within this setting, they become almost instantaneous. Noah’s ability to switch from a conversation between his girlfriend and his friend, or even speaking to them both simultaneously, makes me think that relationships are becoming even more social and are influenced by multiple factors that were not as influential in the past.