The Golem

Ever since watching the movie there were a lot of thoughts in my mind about the origin of this story. The idea of the Golem itself revolves around overcoming human beings’ insecurities, for instance, the movie mainly focused on giving life to a pile mud and create a young boy with supernatural power in order to protect the villagers from outsiders. The creation of what we call today an automata did not have defensive purposes only, however, it had an emotional effect on Hana who lost her child seven years ago and it created this unrealistic bond between her and the boy. After critically analyzing this movie i could only relate the Golem with what we have now the destructive nuclear weapons that are used mainly for protection rather than attack, this could be the only relation between the movie and reality. on the contrary, the fact that the Golem and Hana were somehow physically attached together was not that convincing to reflect the tight bond between the child and Hana because there is no such thing that existed or will exist in our today’s modern world. Overall, it is actually interesting to know that even in ancient myths people tend to give life to objects for the sake of fulfilling their difficult needs and wants in an imaginary way regardless how the idea of creating life would clash with common religious basis.