What makes the film successful is the compactness of the plot. Because in terms of science fiction, there is nothing new and breakthrough.
The transplantation of human memory, from human to machine. This sense of discomfort has been expressed in Robocop. And as a solution to the problem: human cloning, combined with memory transplantation. Nor is it any creative imagination. There was a movie about cloning her husband before, which also collected the memories of the deceased through the Internet and copied them to the android. As for using such an operation to solve the "problem of immortality of the rich", it is not a novel thing. There have also been movies about buying young people's bodies as a carrier for their own memory transplantation.
The movie actually misses a point. That is, human life is a community of body and memory. If there is only a body and no memory, it is a vegetative person; if there is only memory and no body, it is a storage device. And memory transplanted to a new living body seems to be able to preserve life. In fact, a problem has been overlooked. Memory transplantation is actually "recording memory" and then "transferring memory". It's not the same thing as taking a brain and then transplanting it. Although the memory appears to be retrieved, it is actually another person alive. Simply put, a replicant who "lives for others". Because the body is already dead. Just like the ideal teleportation that instantly transfers people to another place, even if the technology can achieve it, it will actually kill you, and then create a you in another place. Who wants to try?
So, in my opinion, the sci-fi nature of the movie is not strong. The key to a movie's success is the tight plot that leaves you breathless.
The protagonist's experiments face closure, and his career and ideals face difficulties. That's when his wife and three children died in a car accident. In his grief, he and his colleagues recreated his wife and two children using cloning and memory transplantation. And the whole process has to face the pressure from the boss to grab the time and find the needed materials. When he succeeded, the boss forced him to send back his wife and two children (this is not a person, but the result of the company's experiment), and the boss is not an ordinary investor, with a mysterious military background. The protagonist creates another lie for one lie, and creates new troubles in order to solve new problems...
However, if it weren't for Gino Reeves, the evaluation would definitely be greatly reduced. 18.12.25
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