Simulacrum

If any is interested in an interesting non-fiction book about the historical use of images, have a look at the book "The Secret Life of Puppets" by Victoria Nelson. [url=http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Life-Puppets-Victoria-Nelson/dp/0674012445/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1334962970&sr=1-1-catcorr]Amazon link[/url] Basically, all recent movies and art is reflecting our creation of sumulacrum, or facsimiles of ourselves. The terminators were always a copy of the main character. Movies are trying to push the boundary. In the last terminator, there was the human who is turned into a robot. Usually it is a straight forward copy of the protagonist that becomes the antagonist. That copy starts out human looking, but then as the story progresses they go deeper into a cave, basement, atmosphere processing plant, Ore transport vessel Nostromos, etc. and confront the facsimile. In Prometheus if this trend plays out (and it will), we will learn that we humans are the simulacrum of the aliens, which should be disturbing. There is also David who is a copy of us. We typically get creeped out when we can tell something is artificial and imitating humans imperfectly. Something called the uncanny valley. However, David is a real actor, so the unease about him should be deeper because he is moving back and forth from a real human to weird android ticks that should subconsciously creep us out with the realization that he is not human but still looks like one. Have a look at the Happy Birthday David viral, and you will know what I mean. People are already saying it creeps them out, but I haven't read anyone explaining why it creeps them out. This unstable balance between obviously human and obviously not is what creeps us out. So, what affect is there when we learn we humans are the simulacrum or copy in this movie and how is it handled to creep us out? I have to find and finish reading the book. It isn't the easiest read, but it is worth it if you have the time and like non-fiction books and movies like alien, terminator, Solaris, etc.