As humanity approaches the second decade of the twenty-first century, the individual is compelled to reevaluate their place in the hyper-fragmented, artificial environment of postmodernity. The science fiction film, with the advent of visual effects, has become a powerful tool to refract us from the familiar to the strange and fantastical, fear and wonder. SF’s hidden agenda however, is in fact a journey to offer a removed perspective not of the uptopias promised by futurism, nor the dystopias envisioned by the postmodern, but the present from the lens of the future, the I from the lens of the Other. This thesis is a journey of self-introspection through examining and the idea of sentience, consciousness and the home as mirage. A framework is set to cross-examine and dissect organic phenomena such as nostalgia, the uncanny, the mirage, with artificial ones such as the bug, the freeze and the glitch.