War Games: Movie Analysis

War games is a movie about a high school boy named David and how his deceiving and hacking nearly started a war. He can hack into computers and is great with machines. For David, hacking into his school’s computers to change his grades is a walk in the park. But sometimes doing bad can lead to worse. David simply tried to hack into an army base to play a game. The game he chose was Global Thermonuclear War. Hacking into this military game caused an unfortunate turn of events. Not until after he had started playing did David realize he might have started World War III. When David hacks into something, he is basically saying he is someone that he is not. As he began to play that game, it addressed him as professor Falken. Later

This clearly shows that his morals on that sort of thing are probably not the best. For example, in the beginning of this movie he hacks into his school’s computer to change his grades. Same thing for his friend Jennifer. She came over to his house after and eventually changed her grades also. At first she was totally opposed to it. At that moment she believed that deceiving and lying was wrong. But once she thought it about it more she changed her mind. Jennifer went back to David and asked him to change them. The bible says in James 4:17, ‘’ So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin’’ Jennifer and David knew it was wrong to hack into the computers to cheat, but taking the easy way out seems right. In their minds doing this will make it easier on them so what they are doing is justified. But in many other people’s minds taking the easy way out is bad because you aren’t learning what you should and college and adult life will be difficult. It’s ok to make things easier now and then, but when it all comes down to it we need to put in some hard to become more responsible. Even though sometimes we may fail we can learn from our