The Island

The Island is an American film of science fiction carried out by Michael Bay, left in 2005.

Synopsis

In 2019, Lincoln 6-Echo (Ewan McGregor) and his/her comrade Jordan 2-Delta (Scarlett Johansson) belong to the hundreds of boarders of a gigantic closed complex, a confined space, asepticized, but known as utopian. To believe of them the leaders of the complex, Doctor Merrick and his agents, a terrible contamination devastated the Earth a few years before… Fortunately, of the survivors are regularly found to be brought back in the complex, of which the goal is to preserve the residents of the contamination. The life there is framed, governed by very strict codes, and is narrowly supervised. Also, to illuminate the dull existence of this sterile and totalitarian universe, each person hopes in “the Lottery”, a random numerical generator which calls some names regularly. The lucky winners receive the privilege to leave the complex for a transfer on “the Island”, supposed being the last escaped territory to have with the contamination, and this in order to be there Adam and Eve of a new humanity…

Lincoln 6-Echo, like all its congeneric, believed a long time in this paradise. But for some time, of the recurring nightmares disturb its sleep, and the young man starts to call in question the direction of his life and the restrictions made on his freedom. Bound friendship with McCord, one of the technicians who work in the engine room of the complex, it discovers one day in this sector an insect come from outside… How could it escape the contamination? Pushed by curiosity, he discovers soon which the choices of “the Lottery” would not be chance… that “the Island” would be only one illusion to hide another thing… that the contamination would be a lie… All that dissimulating one terrifying truth… And him and Jordan 2-Delta, to which it is very attached and last called of “the Lottery”, are solved to flee, with their risks and dangers…

Comment

More still that Blade Runner , the film poses the interrogation of what the man can allot or not the right to make on his alive creations. Insofar as the company of Clonage is obliged to lie at the same time with its clones to make sure of their docility and with its customers not to dissuade them, the topic of film is of type dickien in itself. In addition a series of Retournement S which maintains the intrigue and the topic of the Paranoïa: no one cannot trust anyone.

The particular inhumanity of the members of the company of cloning (equipped with black like formerly the S in four of the scenes (the young mother, the black athlete, the clone too curious and sequences relating to elimination about several tens of clones considered to be “failing”) without apparent state of heart, and sometimes in the laughter, evokes in a clear way the phenomenon of the Shoah and raises the question of our own inhumanity, and the Exploitation by the man of its similar, or those which he denies being his similar.

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  • Because of many similarities, of the people shows film to be a remake of the film The Clonus Horror , realized in 1979 by Robert S. Fiveson, without crediting original film (English Article).

  • It is the first film of the scenario writer not to be produced by Jerry Bruckheimer.

Works from where the film draws some elements

  • the crystal Age (1976): another science fiction film in which, there too, a population is locked up in a supposed bubble to protect it from a contaminated outside world.
  • Brave New World , a book of science fiction writes in 1931 by Aldous Huxley, which suggests that one can educate people by stimulating them by auditive and visual means repeated innumerable once. In the same way, one finds the production of children created artificially.
  • 1984 , a book written by George Orwell in 1948. It describes a totalitarian state. One finds in particular the large-sized telescreens. In film, those give information on the health condition of the clone.
  • At the dawn of the sixth day , a film on the production of clones. One sees there the process of growth accelerated which The Island exploits.
  • Freejack , Where rich people about to die establish their spirit in a healthy body, taken not on a clone but on a person captured in time one second before its accidental death. Once again, the topic of the humanity of a creature creates or having exceeded " its heure" or of the abuse a body in life, is present.

External bond

  • The Island on Internet Movie Database

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