Technology is an embedded aspect of the humans life. It was originally considered as instrument and a set of technics which could be dominated by the mankind. Today modern technology turned itself into something complex and hardly dominated by the human mankind. Indeed modern technological consumers keep considering technology as an instrument, which from a practical point of view is true, but at the same time they are not aware of the real essence of technology.
The movies analyzed in this paper masterfully represent Heidegger’s considerations towards modern technology: Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927), Logan’s Run (Michael Anderson, 1976) and Snowpiercer ( Joon-Ho Bong, 2013). These movies are all set in a dangerous technological context, where people are completely dominated by technology. Heidegger’s concepts of enframing, revealing, danger and saving power are the intrinsic leit motiv of the above cited movies. Contextualized into different historical periods, all these movies share common bases and an happy ending: people manage to see the true essence of technology and free themselves through rebellion.
