tance in which technology's capabilities are grossly overestimated is some of the films portraying nuclear war. A victory of some sort is almost always the conclusion to these "sensible masterpieces" (especially the American ones). The idea, that the possibility of winning is even presented is ambiguous due to the massive destructive properties of such weapons. Nuclear holocaust doesn't really have a victorious ring to it, does it?
             More common are films in which the plot seems unrealistic at first, but as the years go by, becomes closer to possible. Authors such as Stanley Kubrick consistently address the possibility of man being surpassed by the "übermench," or "superman," referring, of course, to robotic machines capable of controlling, or even destroying, their creators. Even though Kubrick directed movies in the sixties and seventies, this threat has been a part of modern thinking since the industrial revolution.
             Even some of the films which rely heavily on the very modern phenomenon of special effects, such as Star Wars
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