The Island - an example of Post Modernism in film
This movie is a similar take on a show from the 1970's called Logan's Run.
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The two main characters find out they are clones after their daring escape from a pretend world.
The Island is a show about people held in an underground society. The modern take on a futuristic idea instead uses clones as the inhabitants of this hidden place. They are also deceived in this movie but in a different way. Their entire memory is programmed into them through extensive brainwashing. There are only a few basic pasts that they all have lived filled with good memories. The clones are also told they are being kept in this place due to the contamination on the outside. However, in this movie no war has taken place. The reason they are there in the first place is because they are clones, paid for and made by their wealthy owners. If their human owner happens to become ill and need replacement parts, they are killed and their body parts salvaged. The method they fool the clones is by telling them they have won the lottery and get to go to the Island. They think they are lucky and finally get to go to a place like paradise. The male character called Lincoln starts to figure out the truth, he takes the girl he likes and they escape. Once he puts the entire process together in his mind, he returns to help the other escape.
Trailer to The Island - This is the IMDb trailer.
Clones escape - This is from YouTube and shows the ending of the movie as the clones escape to find they really won't be contaminated and the two main characters kiss. Then, it ends with them sailing into the future in the boat that was owned by the clones human counterpart who died during the film.
Postmodernism: The concept is copied from a futuristic movie from 1976, but in this postmodern take it uses clones as the characters. In 1996, Dolly the sheep was cloned making her the first living thing to be cloned. The movie was probably inspired by the concept of potentially cloning humans.
Pictures from The Island
The cloning machines shown.
Main characters hiding during action scene near equipment that brainwashes the clones to believe that they are who they are told they are.
In this scene the clones are waiting to find out if they were drawn in the lottery to go to the "island". The island is the paradise where the chosen get to go out in live in the outside world, they think. In reality, when they are chosen it is because their matching human needs their body parts in order to live longer.
When the owners/managers of the cloning operation suspected that one of the groups of clones had more human like traits of reasoning than the others, they put these bugs in his eyes to read him.
These are a couple of the action scenes from the movie when the clones had escaped and were being hunted down to be killed so that no one in the real world would find out that clones had feelings and were human-like.
Logan's Run was a weekly show about the few people who had survived the nuclear war and are being held in a society underground. The following is a summary:
"It's 2274 and on the surface, it all seems to be an idyllic society. Living in a city within an enclosed dome, there is little or no work for humans to perform and inhabitants are free to pursue all of the pleasures of life. There is one catch however: your life is limited and when you reach 30, it is terminated in a quasi-religious ceremony known as Carousel. Some, known as runners, do try to escape their fate when the time comes and it's the job of a Sandman to track them down and kill them. Logan is such a man and with several years before his own termination date, thinks nothing of the job he does. Soon after meeting a young woman, Jessica-6, he is ordered to become a runner himself and infiltrate a community outside the dome known as Sanctuary and to destroy it. Pursued by his friend Francis, also a Sandman, Logan and Jessica find their way to the outside. There they discover a beautiful world." Written by garykmcd from: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074812/
Never Let Me Go is a new movie coming out that is also about clones. This one is set at a boarding school in Europe. The children are given everything but time. They know their purpose as far as I could tell from the trailer. It seems to have a more real element than the other two.
Trailer to Never Let Me Go - This trailer is from IMDb.
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