The world's first mammal clone was born in 1996, a sheep called Dolly, which caused a violent reaction in the human society at the time. Before Dolly people had cloned non-mammals such as goldfish or crocodiles. At that time, cloning seemed to be only related to technology, because biologically speaking, mammalian brains are more advanced than non-mammalian brains. The original brain also has the emotional ability to generate emotions. The successful cloning of the first mammal caused a thousand waves in an instant, and countries around the world rushed to follow suit, and then all kinds of animals were cloned. Putting all the cloned animal species together can even make up the zodiac. However, the development of technology has attracted people's attention, and people began to think about the ethical issues of cloning, which has also become the main reason for the limitation of cloning technology for a long time.
Escape from Clone Island was filmed in 2004-2005, when the anti-cloning voice of the public was strong. The whole film clearly expressed its position against human cloning, and also explored the relationship between human beings and their clones from the perspective of human ethics. The story begins with a chaotic nightmare, a strangely shaped ship, an infected person covered in blue veins, a breathless drowning, and flashes of memory fragments from time to time. Lincoln suddenly woke up from the nightmare. He often had nightmares recently, either drowning or sinking. What followed was a simple, boring day, washing, peeing, eating, exercising, all eerily well-ordered. They are told that they are survivors of the old world, that the world beyond the base has been destroyed by nuclear war, and that the only holy place, the Mysterious Island, is the only remaining Garden of Eden, where the survivors will be sent. Lincoln has been here for three years, and he doesn't seem to have any other survivors' enthusiasm for going to the Myst Island. On one of his work outs, he discovers a moth, which makes him question the reality of the world. If there is no living thing in the outside world, then why there is a moth from the outside world, Lincoln decided to go to find out, and this look led him to discover a new world...
The film assumes that all clones are life insurance purchased by rich people in human society. They will take customers' cells and rely on these cells to grow a new clone. The clones do not have an infant period, they will grow directly to adult size in the culture medium, and will be instilled with different memories during the "growth process", and then the base will maintain their cognitive level around middle school and in the lifestyle. Strictly require clones, balanced diet, sleep adjustment, prohibition of sexual contact, etc., and finally cultivate a perfect body. And all of this is to take out the organs of these clones to save the original body when the customer needs it. This is the meaning of the survival of the clones on the base.
The movie cleverly brought the body and clone into contact, the same appearance, the same genes, everything is the same. So how do we differentiate between clones and ontology? Or how do we define human or nonhuman? That's the question the film throws at the audience, and it's a difficult question to answer. The movie gives the answer in the scene of the real and fake Lincoln in the abandoned factory. The black bodyguard shot and killed the real Lincoln. In fact, he can take it back first, because the physical conditions of the two are completely different. easily identifiable. But the director insisted on letting the real Lincoln die under the gun of black bodyguards. This design is not only for the drama of the film, but also to warn people at the top of the horror of cloning itself. So the answer to the movie is indistinguishable!
The biggest gimmick of the movie is cloning the biotechnology, and of course Scarlett's face. When we separate the two, the core of the film rests on the ultimate question of who I am. We can understand this problem by carefully studying the clone cultivation process at the base. In the early stages of the clone, a memory will be implanted to make him understand that he is from the broken old world. The clones will then have a unique number that identifies each clone's particularity and solves the question of who I am. In the end, I made up a dream of a mysterious island, and let the clones understand the question of where I am going in their longing.
Judging from the products that the base has successfully applied, such a move is effective, but the conversation between Lincoln and Mike stimulates the most dangerous component of this logic chain - curiosity. For isolated clones, the information revealed by a real person is often unknowingly revelatory. And the moth that flew in by accident, officially broke the logic chain built by the base for Lincoln. If moths can survive, why does the base say that nothing can survive outside? If he lied about it, what else was lying about? The moth was undoubtedly the Prometheus who brought the spiritual fire to Lincoln, and it sparked a revolution in Lincoln's mind, just as the ancestors of mankind first made fire from wood many years ago. Lincoln learned to doubt.
But if there is no Mike, no moths, no enlightenment. Can these people break through the constraints of their thoughts and discover the real world? This question is difficult to answer, because it may infringe on the person itself. I believe everyone has their own answer. You can tell me in the comment area. In addition to the above elements, I think the most worthwhile consideration in the movie is the point of injecting memory into clones. Today, our era is in a state of information explosion. Thousands of recommendation algorithms and highly developed mobile networks make people in this era closely connected. In movies, clones are injected into memory by looping images, and today we are driven to think by the Internet, so we will experience things that are reversed and reversed. In a sense we are also being injected with information, we are believing in something, we are tempted to consume it, we are like those newborn clones, we believe whatever the information feeds us.
Finally, I would like to send you a sentence from a novel that I like very much: Before that, think more!
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