'Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning' shows the most dangerous enemy in this entire saga

@ElentirENG ES 7·15·2023 · 18:17 0

This Friday I saw the last part of the "Mission Impossible" movie saga, starring Tom Cruise in the role of Ethan Hunt.

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It should be noted that the newly released film is the first of two parts, and it is a long film (2 hours and 43 minutes). I must admit that although I like it, this has never been my favorite saga about intelligence services movies. That's where I lean more towards the Jason Bourne saga. I didn't expect much from this seventh part, but it surprised me a lot and for the better. The film has a very good plot, in addition to the doses of action that we've seen in previous films, but this time it has the incentive of an argument that gives rise to many reflections and that should be of great concern to all of us. And before gutting any details, for those who do not prefer to continue reading, I will say that I found it a highly recommended film, perhaps one of the best in this saga.

I make a paragraph here to put a NOTICE: below I reveal some details of the film. If you are going to see it and you prefer not to know anything, stop reading here.

In the previous movies, Ethan Hunt and his teammates have battled some very evil people and organizations. This time the enemy is much more dangerous, perhaps the most dangerous that can be presented in a movie today. The film depicts an artificial intelligence (AI) "entity" with enormous power and moving by the cold logic of algorithms. We have already seen enemies like this in the "Terminator" and "Matrix" sagas, but this time there is a notable difference, and that is that this AI does not intend to exterminate humanity or physically enslave it, but to control it by redefining what is true and what is not. The most realistic thing about the film (in my opinion) is that different governments realize the potential of this AI, and instead of ending it, they intend to control it to use it to their advantage.

At this point, some will think that the film's approach is conspiracy. Could be. But let us think for a moment about the evolution of our world: we have an important part of the political class that thinks that we would have a better society with a State that covered -that is, controlled- more spheres of our existence, with the excuse of offering equal public services to all. That implies concentrating more and more power in a few hands, something that has proven to be very dangerous throughout history.

To limit that political power, democratic countries have created damaging walls (the legislature, the judiciary, and the media), but what happens if political power assaults those other three powers, in the belief that only he has democratic legitimacy and this cannot be controlled by anyone? It is at this point that a democracy begins to give way to an autocracy.

Returning to the title of this entry, I must point out that the most dangerous enemy in this saga is not an AI, simply, but what an ambitious political power can do with an AI that allows it to redefine reality, especially in a world in which relativism is destroying all kinds of certainties to redefine truth and even to redefine human rights, for example, calling the "right" to eliminate certain human beings or pointing out as public enemies those who affirm a scientific fact such as the existence of two sexes in the human species. The most alarming thing about this film, in short, is not realizing what political power is capable of doing with a very powerful manipulation tool (AI), but what already is doing with a no less powerful tool (the mass media, especially television) and with the enthusiastic applause of many who consider themselves lovers of freedom.

I leave you here with the trailer: