Last night my children and I watched it for the first time. We all enjoyed it and afterwards had a discussion about clones and the ethics surrounding the subject.
I know the movie isn't perfect, but the moral questions it asks are important and fascinating, I enjoyed the look of it and the script was all right. It had me hooked untill the very ending.
As far as being original, I like the way they used the familiar elements in their own way. Many movies aren't completely original anymore, most subjects in our current world already have been covered. It's difficult to find something that nobody ever wrote about.
Besides, it fits a certain genre and genres alway have some similar traits, nothing wrong with that. All romcoms have people falling in love with each other while they hated each other first or they have people afraid to tell the other that they're in love or one of them is somehow tied to another, yet most of them use these elements to create a variety of different stories, even with their similarities.
And ghost stories, most of them have similar story lines such as a ghost can't find peace because something still has to be done on earth or a ghost hates every living person and kills most or a ghost wants your body to have another life on earth, etc. Yet the film makers often turen these similar elements into their own story. Even the most original ghost story will have elements which many many other ghost stories have.
Same goes for any other kind of movie. What makes a movie really great imho is the way a story is told.
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eoval
11 years ago
One of my favorite elements of this movie is the question of life's validity. Is it OK to euthanize a sentient human just because they are no longer needed? Is cloning an entire person merely to serve as replacement parts something people would be morally comfortable with?
I realize that the "owners" are told that their agnates are not "alive" alive, but is it even remotely possible that the expectant mother doesn't realize it would take a living, breathing person to carry a baby to term?
I paraphrase, but Sean Bean's character inasmuch tells the contract mercenary that people don't want to know what's actually going on with their clones.
Another thing I enjoyed was the unbearably sterile and futuristic "inside" compared to the bleak and dirty outside. For me, it gave the movie an interesting feel, highlighting the difference between the perceived and the actual.
Great movie, loved the score, too.
"I do not like mixing up moralities and mathematics."
Churchill
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