He was the lowest form of a man but still a human being. He was in prison and paying for his crimes. Shouldn't he be given a choice of this experiment and the reward being for having is sentence reduced?
I know time was at the essence but if the proper protocol couldn't be used then one of the law officials should have been made to volunteer.
> I know time was at the essence but if the proper protocol couldn't be used then one of the law officials should have been made to volunteer.
Absolutely his rights were violated. Of course, when you are tossed in prison, you lose some of your rights (freedom being the most obvious one), but you don't lose your basic human rights.
They can't just take him away and perform medical experiments on him -- that's the kind of thing that Nazis did. That's part of what makes the movie so complicated. He didn't ask for the memories to be implanted, yet he did gain benefit from it in that his brain is healing from its childhood injuries -- he got to experience love and emotions. He saved the world, yet he wasn't given his freedom.
It still doesn't make for a good movie.
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Thank You for your thoughtful answer! I agree 100%
shareDid Gary Oldman's character strike you as someone who cared about civil rights? Of course his civil rights were violated, but that's consistent with the character in the movie so it's not a plot hole.
As for having someone else, Tommy Lee Jones' character mentioned that Jericho's brain condition was very rare, they needed someone with an undeveloped lobe to stimulate the brain development with the memories.
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