It's actually a film about morals (this is not a film review)

Opal 2022-10-07 03:54:36

This isn't a movie review, it's a personal opinion.


I'm very timid, so I basically don't watch horror movies. I watched this movie this time and found that it wasn't scary at all. I thought I was timid. In fact, the output of this film is not horror, but moral issues. It's about the ethical issues that arise from cloning technology. (I'm not going to describe the plot, so if you haven't seen the movie, you may not understand the following things)

The movie was set in 1998, and cloning was best known for the appearance of Dolly the cloned sheep, in 1996. I personally believe that this is the writer's fear of new technology. In fact, there was already a serious discussion about moral issues at that time.

In the movie, Sadako was resurrected through DNA genetic factors and methods similar to "test tube baby" technology, which corresponded to the latest technology at the time. And this kind of technology has the potential to break the most traditional concept of life and death, and people can live forever. This can lead to ethical issues of one kind and another. I remember a line that said: You betrayed the world and God in order to get your own children.

Once people can live forever through a certain technology, do we still need to give birth to new human beings? ? Even the class with power can clone people to create slaves, these slaves can eliminate resistance through some genetic modification, and become only obedient to orders. In this case, will the power class wipe out the "old versions of human beings" who would have resisted? ? They are no longer used anyway.

Wait, wait, human beings have not yet surpassed life and death, but once they do, there may be unimaginable troubles. The movie seems to be worried about this.

Technological fear, there have been many movies of this type in recent years, such as "The Matrix", "Terminator" and so on. The crux of this discussion is this: Humans create technology, but are ultimately enslaved by technology.

It should be to talk to the father about the topic of the public and the mother.

As a horror movie, this movie is a failure. Even I dare to see it.

There are also two lines in the movie, as shown below. I often say that in today's world, the greatest belief is science, not religion. I believe what this line is saying is that scientific belief will have more and more believers, because it may bring believers what they most desire: eternal life

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Spiral quotes

  • Mitsuo Ando: There is not a man in the world who would wish his own son dead.

    Mai Takano: Dr Ando, Dr Takayama didn't want Yoichi to die. He wanted to save him... for Reiko.

  • Ryuji Takayama: You couldn't slit your wrists but you happily tore apart me!

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