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Surrogates
WARNING - SPOILERS!
This was a very interesting movie! It was like a mix between The Matrix, I, Robot, and a little bit of Wall-E. What I liked the most about this movie is that it was a sci-fi movie about technology ruining humanity not because the technology took over and became evil, but because of humanity's addiction to it! Finally, something more realistic! Let's make a new paragraph so I feel good about rambling.
The way they started out the movie was great. It really seemed like a logical progression of robots/surrogates. It starts out with finding out that you can control a robot with your thoughts, then for disabled people to be able to walk, and then it became available to the public and it made everything "better." Yes, crime went down significantly, prejudice was gone since nobody knew what race everyone else really was, and people could be who they wanted without worrying about how they look. They picked it! It was kind of disgusting to see that young attractive girl was really a fat guy... I guess that's who he really wanted to be. I don't think that's what the other boy had in mind when he started making out with her. The only huge problem is that people stopped doing things themselves! They couldn't express their emotions properly--the robots couldn't cry, apparently--and whenever a character did start to cry they just left the conversation. It's a way for people to duck out of problems and not really face them. This was especially apparent in Tom Greer's wife and their son dying. She never seemed to have faced the pain of their son dying but instead hid behind her perfect surrogate. I found it interesting that when Bruce Willis's character did go out into the real world without a surrogate that the other girl said, "I'm surprised they didn't give you something for the anxiety." Why? He's just walking around! But, it makes sense. Everyone else is walking around without fear. That's terrifying when you have something to fear and nobody else does.
I really liked that there were colonies of people that were against surrogates (Zion in the Matrix?). They even had signs that said, "Unplug!" How could I not think of the Matrix with that? It also brings up the great question: What is real? It was interesting to see Bruce Willis try on another surrogate and he didn't have the senses his other surrogate had. He had to pay more for other senses. What? Why? Why not just use my perfectly good body I have right here that can feel everything? Not to mention this guy looks completely different from me. It was fun to see such a younger looking Bruce Willis. It reminded me a lot of the Die Hard movies. He even got pretty beat up, but still nothing like in the Die Hard movies, and he was a cop! Well, basically. :P
I was surprised more people weren't obese. If they used their surrogate so often and really only didn't have it at night when they slept... how do they get exercise? Well, how do they eat? I don't think their surrogates could really eat and make it feed their actual bodies at the same time. Maybe on their breaks for food they actually get up out of their chairs and eat something at home. That's interesting. They never showed that, and I never thought about it until just now. Anyway, when everyone was walking outside for the first time in forever when their surrogates were all dead... I was surprised how many people looked fairly good for being in chairs for so long. It seems like it'd be painful to walk and their muscles would be deteriorated or something.
I thought it was a bit much that they hung up Tom Greer's surrogate on a cross in the non-surrogate colony. It's like they were blatantly telling us that Tom Greer was going to save everyone in the end. I think it could have been just as effective but not quite as blatant if they put the surrogate head on a pike or something and said, "Surrogates beware!" I don't know. I guess I shouldn't complain too much since the Matrix was notorious for obvious references like that. I guess the difference in the Matrix was that Neo had already typified Christ and they just wanted to show it more after the fact.
The "bad guy" was the "Father of Surrogacy." He wanted to get rid of them because they got out of hand--which was true. Of course, he was going about it the wrong way. He did seem to suddenly get really bad in wanting to kill basically everyone. His justification was that they were already dead. I like Tom Greer's solution of killing all the surrogates so people had to live their lives, but not die! Oh, what a novel thought. I guess Canter had been angry about it for so long that it boiled up inside of him enough to make him want everyone else dead. That's pretty sad.
In conclusion, I really enjoyed this take on technology gone wrong. If technology ruins humanity, it'll be our fault, not the technology turning on us. That's ridiculous. This movie is more realistic.
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