The right motives may not necessarily lead to the right things, let alone the wrong ones.

Jaron 2022-04-20 09:02:52

I saw it earlier, flipped through the sci-fi film and picked it up and simply revisited it.
The heroine is still as beautiful as I remember. I felt familiar at the time, but now I know that I have seen movies in which she participated: 300 Warriors: The Rise of an Empire, The Golden Compass, and 007 Casino Royale Stories. It seems that there are still many good actors who have not been able to take their seats, and there are many good movies that have not been seen.
Although the film ended a bit sloppily, it finally told a good story. The biggest regret is that the male protagonist is too ugly. This is based on what others have said. I just express no objection for personal aesthetics. Although the male protagonist is tall enough, it seems that he is not a guy who deserves the female protagonist to come back to him when he grows up and have a follow-up plot.
The monologue at the beginning of the movie, I imagine that if the cloned male protagonist leaves again (that is, the second pregnancy, physical rather than cloned), there will be a sublimation theme.

The childhood experience at the beginning, and the rapid development of the heroine after she grows up and returns, the rhythm, picture and photography are also very good, interesting and artistic. In comparison, the second half is much inferior (mainly in terms of plot and rhythm).

As for the reasoning, which is what many viewers call incest, I think the main focus should be the cloning itself, not the cloning of husbands and sex with them.
The male protagonist's mother said that her family is an atheist, but she believes that living is a gift, and it should not be forced upon death. I think that's the point, the motivation for cloning.
At the end of the film, the male protagonist and the female protagonist are cloned to have sex (I think this part is completely ignorant, so the ending is too hasty). It's certainly not wrong to call a man incest in the traditional sense of having sex with a woman who gave birth to him from the womb. However there are two problems here. First, this man is not a combination of sperm and eggs in the traditional sense, but cloned from another man, so in this step, the female protagonist's uterus is only equivalent to a container, and they have no actual mother-child relationship. Then, the female protagonist raised the cloned male protagonist as a mother and grew up with facts. This is the second problem. The female protagonist and the cloned male protagonist have a mother-son relationship in a realistic sense.
So are they incest? You can say yes, you can say no. What should really be asked is whether they should and can be married, that is, sexual intercourse (mainly the matter of cloning and raising the cloned male protagonist, intercourse is just a female appendage). In my opinion, this is unconscionable, but reasonable. As the heroine said, "At least you are here, you are still alive". The heroine loves her husband so much that she doesn't want to be separated from her husband forever because of an accident, so she chooses to clone her husband (the heroine is definitely not the only one who would do this in a similar situation). Then the female protagonist raises the male protagonist. She has two choices. One is to hide the truth and become a mother and son forever, and the other is to explain that the truth is not only a mother and a son (as mentioned above, it is not completely). There is no entanglement in the interpretation of this aspect in the film. It seems that the female protagonist has been a mother all the time, and she was forced to explain the truth by accident (to be exact, it is to show the truth, the cloned male protagonist just watched the image of the male protagonist). In either case, it is reasonable. Because women have the right to make their own choices.
At the same time, the unreasonable part is that the cloned male protagonist does not have the consciousness of the male protagonist. Although the appearance and DNA are all the same, the two are not the same person. Female protagonists have the right to make their own choices, and cloned male protagonists also have the right to make their own choices (being copied and "regenerated" is an imposed will, which is different from the way humans reproduce naturally, so copying humans is currently prohibited internationally). It's a question of motivation. After the male protagonist dies, cloning and "resurrecting" his body does not revive his consciousness, so it is actually another person who is "resurrected". And the female lead's motivation is of course to resurrect the male lead, so whether she wants to be a mother and son or a husband and wife later, it is doomed to be a mistake from the beginning. The heroine is equivalent to raising a "tongyanghu". In modern society, this kind of behavior is of course against the law and morals, but since the "tongyanghu" was born by herself, it needs to be discussed again.
In short, the film tells an imperfect story, and through this story, we can explore many relevant issues.

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Womb quotes

  • Thomas - 10 years: I keep dying!

    Rebecca: Try again.

  • Thomas: What are you doing this weekend?

    Rebecca: Same as you.

    Thomas: I can't, I have to go away.

    Rebecca: I'll come with you.

    Thomas: I have to go alone. I'll only be 2 days.

    Rebecca: Where ever you go, I go.

    Thomas: This is somewhere you can't go.

    Rebecca: Then you shouldn't go either.