After watching the movie "The Clones"

Zion 2022-03-22 09:02:27

The movie "The Clones" tells the story of a resurrection from the dead. Scientist William is employed by a biomedical company dedicated to transplanting human minds into artificial humans. His wife and three children were killed in a car accident when the experiment was close to success. Under the pain, William made a crazy decision. He quickly called a colleague to read the family's thinking data, and then used the company's equipment to clone his family, and then imported the thinking data into the clone's brain. The technical difficulties set in it, and the plots of the profiteers' chasing and killing are nothing to talk about. I think these are just to increase the watchability of the movie. There are a few things in the movie that shocked me.

1. After reading the family's thinking data, William calmly told Ed to get rid of these bodies! These bodies are his family! Although he may be able to reproduce living clones, these are his real family members, how can he be so calm and indifferent at this time!

2. There are 4 wives and children in total, but there are only 3 regeneration chambers for human clones, and it is impossible to make another one in a short time. William faces a difficult choice, deciding who lives and who dies among his four favorites. This is a new problem of human relations brought about by technology. In the movie, William used the method of casting lots to make a choice. If a selfish and eccentric person chooses, wouldn't it be cruel to those who were chosen! If this technology is promoted in the society, the social problems it will bring are unimaginable, life and death will become frivolous, and human life will no longer be precious.

3. Death will no longer be liberation and freedom. If a person dies, he may be forced to "live" against his will. Although most people want to live, they cannot be deprived of the right to die.

4. The clones were implanted with trackers. So is it possible to secretly implant some other illegal activities on the cloned human body? The body is just a product, and in such an impure body, can the consciousness still remain independent? This process of cloning is fraught with risks and vulnerabilities.

5. William's family was taken away by the profiteer Jones, who was horrified when Jones pointed a gun at Mona and threatened William to hand over the transplant algorithm. I don't take it seriously for watching the movie. You can copy it again when you die! Maybe death can also become commonplace. I have read a horror science fiction before: a company has developed a space shuttle door (similar to an arbitrary door), but the reality is that everyone who enters an arbitrary door will be immediately killed with a poison needle, and then the machine extracts data and transmits it to the destination Immediately clone another person out. The so-called breakthrough in space technology is actually the ultimate application of cloning technology.

6. Memories can be deleted. William failed to clone his youngest daughter Zoe, and he didn't want his wife and two other children to know that he was a clone. In order to avoid explaining where Zoe went, he deleted all the memories of Zoe from the family's memory. If memories can be edited, can life still be real?

7. Thinking can be copied. Reversing the plot in the film, William imported his own thinking data into the robot No. 345, and subdued Jones and his group with the powerful force of the robot. Can you use this technology to "separate your own skills"? How can multiple "me" coexist? How to identify and distinguish identities? Is a robot with human thinking a human or a thing? How to treat them differently?

8. William and Jones reached an agreement, and the two cooperated to help the rich clone the human body and get a second life to make a lot of money. Technology and money are on the line, and the dominant group will never die. For the sake of ecological balance, someone has to die. Naturally, it is the disadvantaged group.

I have read a lot of science fiction novels and movies about immortality and resurrection. Most of the authors write in awe, such as Wang Jinkang's "? ? ? ", the protagonist obtained the technology of immortality, but he chose to live a low-key life, and vowed never to raise offspring. If he wanted to have offspring, he would die himself to achieve an ecological balance. U.S. drama" ? ? ? "Genius scientists have invented technology that can bring dead people back to life, but they also chose to keep them secret. An old man in the play thinks that this is what God did, and people cannot violate God's authority and refuse the chance to be reborn.

Let's go back to the movie, there are a lot of foreshadowing in the film, it is estimated that it is to build momentum for the second part.

1. In the opening scene, Mona said that ours is to love your family, and you are just a scientist. Here, William's rationality and indifference are pointed out. He is a person who does not act according to common sense. Social rules are probably dispensable in his eyes, which provides a great personality for his future development. space.

2. Mona felt unwell while running, but there is no explanation in the film, and it may have to wait until the next one. Mona's boldness as she burns down the tracker with electricity shows that she's not that simple.

3. At the end of the film, William leads Zoe to Mona. How did Zoe get here? Why does Mona, whose memories have been deleted, still have such deep feelings for Zoe? None of this is explained.

4. Poor Ed worked tirelessly to help William clone his family, lied for him, endured his bad temper, and finally got shot because of him, and didn't help him resurrect him in the end?

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Replicas quotes

  • Ed Whittle: I'm not a freaking genie here, OK? I can't just sneeze out another pod.

  • Will Foster: Three's not four.