Science fiction films that don't allow nitpicking

Loyce 2022-03-30 09:01:07

Why do you say that this film does not allow thorns, because once you start the process of tickling, you find that you can't stop at all.

1. Nervous. When I first started watching this movie, I was always led by the plot, and I always sweated for the male protagonist. At first I was afraid of a car accident; then I was afraid that mistakes in the copying process would cause the clones to deform; and then I was afraid of being caught... Although there were a lot of worries that they didn't appear "conventional" one by one, the whole scene was creating a sense of tension, which was really well rendered.

2. Small production. I didn't feel it when I watched it, but when I look back, I used three exterior scenes for the whole movie, and almost all the rest were done inside. Only then did I realize that this film is not a science fiction film, but an ethical film, and did not put any big money into animation special effects.

3. Ethics. This is actually the eternal core theme of all clone sci-fi film series, but the script does not raise this issue to a particularly advanced level, but only uses an acupuncture-style cut from the perspective of an ordinary person, straightforward but sincere.

In fact, there are many so-called bugs in this film, such as the technical problems of human cloning, the content of materials, the equipment and process of cloning, as well as the ability to copy neuron information with a helmet on the head, and even why the tracking link on the scene is so easy Being found by bad guys, etc... If it is really full of bugs, it does not affect him being a qualified sci-fi ethics film.

It's a good time to release at this recent time (the juncture of the birth of the first pair of gene-edited babies Lulu and Nana), and it also shows the intention of the film. In my opinion, the film is not about discussing technical issues, but giving two hints:

First, when the so-called ethical issues don’t happen to you, everyone can talk about ethics and morality, should or shouldn’t, but when it comes to yourself or your family, all ethics are no match for others. The relationship itself is hot, no matter what ethics he should or not, as long as he can continue to spend the rest of his life with his beloved wife and children, all ethics seem to be no longer important. Perhaps this is exactly what the film conveys—emotions constitute people themselves, not matter.

Second, a terrible imagination. The movie itself does not render the horror or the doomsday scene after the proliferation of clones. However, in the process of watching the movie, the audience will involuntarily imagine this possibility, and the impact on thinking is from beginning to end. Even the film ends with a sloppy, absurd, beautiful scene, but it still doesn't make people stop thinking about this future. In this way, the movie itself is also worthy of affirmation, and it can even be said that there is an indescribable sense of high-level-moisturizing things silently and extending for a long time.

4. Reeves' selection logic is the key. Every one of his selections in recent years is so... "different"

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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.