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Laurie MacDonald. The movie stars Tommy Lee Jones as Kevin Brown, also known as Agent K and Will Smith as James Darrell Edwards 111, also known as Agent J. The move grossed over five million dollars. The film is about a secret agency that hunts down aliens and then after finding them, keeps them in check to keep the human population safe, they are referred to the “men in black”. Ultimately, the agents have all of their former identities erased and retired agents are neuralyzed and given new identities (Men in Black, 1997). The movie Men in Black two was released July the third, two thousand two. It is a sequel to the film Men in Black that was released on July the second, nineteen ninety seven. It is a science fiction action film, directed …show more content…

It is the third sequel in the Men in Black series. It is a science fiction action film, directed by Barry Sonnenfiels and produced by Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald. It stars the same two main Characters as the previous movies, Tommy Lee Jones as Agent K and Will Smith as 111/ Agent J. The move grossed over six million dollars and grossed more than the other two Men in Black movies. The plot consist of an alien criminal, Boris the Animal, which escapes from a prison on the moon. He is set on taking revenge on Agent K, because he shot off his arm and captured him in 1969( Men in Black, 2012). Although, I am just comparing the film Men in Black, all three of the Men in Black movies touch on memory eraser by using a once thought of science fiction only tool the neuralyzer. As stated in the article “ Of all the cool gadgets in science fiction, one of the niftiest is the memory-eraser stick that Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones wield in the movie Men in Black. Now such a thing is a step closer to reality. Researchers at UC Davis have successfully erased specific memories from the brains of mice…by using beams of light. Yes—light—just like the “Neuralyzer” tool in that 1997 sci-fi comedy”( “Scientists are a step closer to creating the memory eraser from “Men in …show more content…

He compares the memory alternating technology in the film “Men in Black”, “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, “and “Memory Hackers.” He also touches on how he is concerned that theses technology has not only great potential to do good things, but also how it could be used to do evil things (“Not Just a ‘Men In Black’ Thing Anymore,”1). All three of the movies Men in Black reveals more good reasons not why memory erasure should not be utilized by portraying how sinister the world could get by neuralyzing or erasing others minds. The new Nova documentary, “Memory Hackers is a film that is extremely intriguing, it introduces a scientific breakthrough research that scientist has been working on for over seventy years. This film will also help the public to have understanding of all the effects of the long-term memory. It will also touch on the fact of how long-term memories are created, stored, and brought back to life ( PBS Public Broadcasting Service,

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