Blogging this week is optional, and if you do post, you'll earn 2 points of Extra Credit!! However, since you have both a final essay and a final exam to do this weekend, I'd much rather you prioritize those tasks rather than blogging. So, for those of you that are terribly behind in the points game and desperately need the 2 extra points, here are some questions to answer about I'm a Cyborg, But It's OK:
1. In class and in the WIRED article "Seoul Machine," you heard/read about South Korea's rapid rise to the forefront of global technological development. How do you think I'm a Cyborg relates to S. Korea having grown into a tech powerhouse so quickly and so recently?
2. One could say that both 2046 and I'm a Cyborg are romances/love stories first, and sci-fi stories second. Why do you think Wong Kar-Wai and Chan-Wook Park both decided that sci-fi would be a good complement to romantic fictions? How did technology and science work to illustrate or facilitate love in both films?
Good luck on your final projects for the class!!
