onsdag 21 maj 2014

The Island



The film is about a giant complex where tons of clones live and work with different things. The leader and founder of the complex is: a man called Dr Merric. Merric tell them are very lucky to still be alive because the world have been contaminated by some kind of disease or bacteria. But the truth is that they are actually clones for rich and famous people, ”Sponsors”. Once a week there is a lottery and one person is drawn. And the winner gets to go to the "the Island". The Island is told to be the last habitable place on earth. The winners of the lottery doesn’t really get to the island. Instead they are anaesthetized and operated on and taken of the organs their sponsors need.

The main reason Merric started this was because he thought that people want to live forever right?
He made a way for people to live practicly forever if they had the money. He had good intentions with the idea but in the process he was so obsessed with his goal so he started to do anything to achieve it and didn't think of what he was doing. The was actually killing people when they didn't suspect it or knew it was going to happen. Ofcourse he knew that this was highly illegal and he had to keep it secret that he was killing people. So he told the buyers and investors that he was creating a non human thing that couldn’t feel any thing or emotions. But the thing would reject the organ he was growing inside of it. So he thought of cloning and started to grow people in vessels. That would recreate a woman's uterus. When the people are ready all the liquid is drained out of the vessel. The human is put in a coffin-like thing which has food directly put in them like an umbellical cord. A screen is always in front of their eyes which are forced open. On the screen there is a constant flow of images and videos of fake memories including memories of the world being contaminated.

It seems that the doctors that perform the operations and Merrick don't really care about what they are doing. Its like the people's clones they kill doesn't mean anything  to them just because they're clones. At first I thought the sponsors didn’t know that the organs they were recieving was from another human. But they actually know what’s going on. The idea of growing people for the sole purpose of killing them at some point in their life just for the sponsors to live longer. I think that is unbelievably selfish to kill someone else just for you to live longer. Paying for someone elses bodyparts is just sick and I cant understand the people in the film (the sponsors), how do they think?. Do they really love themselves so much that that they would take another persons life just to stay alive.