A repeated theme we see in this film that we can see in other cyberpunk films is the idea of man-made technology such as computer systems or artificial intelligence, betraying its own creator for wanting to take over the real world and people’s lives. Clu represents a creation made to do well that ends up doing the opposite. Connecting it back to Videodrome, Brian O’Blivion had originally created Videodrome as a creation for his visions of the future, to which he had no intention to use in malevolent and brainwashing purposes. He tries to stop this and ends up getting killed, leaving his work he left behind in the hands of his daughter that takes over and turns Videodrome into what Max is now dealing with. In Tron: Legacy, though Flynn is not technically killed, he is trapped inside a virtual world he has no control of – a virtual world made up of thousands of pixels that has become Flynn’s own reality. …show more content…
The ending shows how a man’s own work ends up taking his life, this is in the case of Flynn who is “destroyed” along with the computer programs. Flynn became another computer program that was not able to make it back to the real world. Similarly, we see these aspects in cyberpunk films such as when a character is not capable of coming back to his real senses or is killed off by the virtual world he has no control of. We can see this in the movie, Inception. Though Inception deals with a different type of virtual world and “technology”, the main character, similar to the previous ones I’ve talked about (Max and Flynn) is trapped inside a virtual world he loses control of and grows weak