Quite a fun movie. Caught the 5:30pm show. We probably chose to watch `The Island' because neither of us knew the first thing about the movie. Sometimes not knowing anything about a movie adds to its appeal. The other choices were `Bewitched', `Wedding Crashers', `Mysterious Skin', and `Land of the Dead'. So, armed with a colleague's recommendation and the ticket seller's summary (`cloning lah'), we bought our tickets. No regrets. :)
Update: One of the themes of The Island is that humans would do anything to survive, similar perhaps to the concept of "Grun-tu-molani" in Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow. "Grun-tu-molani" is roughly translated as "Man wants to live." But The Island is not completely damning in its protrayal of the survival instinct of human beings (afterall it is a hollywood flick). The heros in the movie make the selfless decision to save the rest of their friends from certain death. I think that is why the idea of a selfless hero, or Christ for that matter, is so appealing to humanity. It goes against our human nature, therefore we are drawn to the heroism, the way opposites attract.
3 comments:
i watch the movie too! it is cool! hmm, can something like that happen in future? wat u think?
scary....
I agree, it is scary! Hopefully we'll have more sense to stop before we ever get to such a state.
But the movie was right in one aspect -- people will do anything to survive...
Man.. it's been years since I lived in Singapore and you've reminded me of it all by saying "Cloning.. lah"
I'm sure this is random but you made me chuckle so I thought I'd mention it ;)
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