The Island
The Island - starring Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johanson
Five stars (with caution for gore essential to the plot)
If you haven't seen "The Island", you should. I'm going to include a spoiler here, so click to my previous post if you don't want to know. I remember when the movie came out last year, because it's premise reminded me of a short story I wrote a few years ago.
Like good science fiction, The Island takes a controversial issue, asks "What if this were possible in the future? What would society look like?" Specifically, it asks, "What if cloning were legal and successful? What would the business of cloning look like?" By extension, it also conquers the issues of stem cell research and abortion.
Buyers of the "product" are told that the cloned tissue is never conscious, it grows in sacks, and there's nothing human about a batch of tissue. But in reality, full-grown human clones are grown, made aware (because emotions and life are essential for good organs), and told that wonderful things await them in their future.
Clones are harvested for the organs and other tissues their wealthy human originals need. During one particularly gorey scene, a physically strong clone wakes up just as harvesting begins and runs down the hall with his torso cut down his sternum, yelling that he wants to live. He's shot in the legs with mini spear guns (b/c guns and other weapons would damage the organs) and dragged back to the operating table.
This movie should have caused a furor in the media, but instead they ignored it completely. They didn't want anyone to see this movie. Cloning and stem cell research sound great when you're talking about a few cells for quadraplegics, but when you talk about growing clones for organ transplants, a natural evolution of the procedure, the true ethics of the issue - life and death - become readily apparent.
When we're talking about stem cells and killing embryos when they're only 8 cells, it's one thing, but when you're watching "The Island" and see doctors in lab coats slitting open large sacks containing embryos grown as full-sized humans and jabbing syringes filled with death into their necks, the appalling nature of abortion shocks our sensibilities.
Filled with action sequences, chase scenes, and people shooting nails into other people's hands, this movie is designed for teens (and other lovers of the action genre). What better way to show this audience the real meaning behind the liberal drivel they get from university professors than a movie.
For a longer and more thorough analysis of this movie, visit ChristianAnswers.net.
Five stars (with caution for gore essential to the plot)
If you haven't seen "The Island", you should. I'm going to include a spoiler here, so click to my previous post if you don't want to know. I remember when the movie came out last year, because it's premise reminded me of a short story I wrote a few years ago.
Like good science fiction, The Island takes a controversial issue, asks "What if this were possible in the future? What would society look like?" Specifically, it asks, "What if cloning were legal and successful? What would the business of cloning look like?" By extension, it also conquers the issues of stem cell research and abortion.
Buyers of the "product" are told that the cloned tissue is never conscious, it grows in sacks, and there's nothing human about a batch of tissue. But in reality, full-grown human clones are grown, made aware (because emotions and life are essential for good organs), and told that wonderful things await them in their future.
Clones are harvested for the organs and other tissues their wealthy human originals need. During one particularly gorey scene, a physically strong clone wakes up just as harvesting begins and runs down the hall with his torso cut down his sternum, yelling that he wants to live. He's shot in the legs with mini spear guns (b/c guns and other weapons would damage the organs) and dragged back to the operating table.
This movie should have caused a furor in the media, but instead they ignored it completely. They didn't want anyone to see this movie. Cloning and stem cell research sound great when you're talking about a few cells for quadraplegics, but when you talk about growing clones for organ transplants, a natural evolution of the procedure, the true ethics of the issue - life and death - become readily apparent.
When we're talking about stem cells and killing embryos when they're only 8 cells, it's one thing, but when you're watching "The Island" and see doctors in lab coats slitting open large sacks containing embryos grown as full-sized humans and jabbing syringes filled with death into their necks, the appalling nature of abortion shocks our sensibilities.
Filled with action sequences, chase scenes, and people shooting nails into other people's hands, this movie is designed for teens (and other lovers of the action genre). What better way to show this audience the real meaning behind the liberal drivel they get from university professors than a movie.
For a longer and more thorough analysis of this movie, visit ChristianAnswers.net.
posted by Terri | 6:30 PM
2 Comments:
Thanks for that recommendation. I'll have to check it out. I agree with your comment that the media probably ignored it on purpose. Although, who would ignore Ewan McGregor? LOL
Thanks for that recommendation. I'll have to check it out. I agree with your comment that the media probably ignored it on purpose. Although, who would ignore Ewan McGregor? LOL
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