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Another complimentary movie ticket from Tiff, aside from the last movie she invited me for - Charlie and The Chocolate Factory (2005). I didn’t want to blog about the review, knowing our friend Julian will probably be the first who made it up. We met each other in the cineplex. Plus his review will definitely be much better than mine, so not to make myself look bad, I decided to hold on and get this up. This time I chose to watch and blog about The Island (2005).

It’s not the latest in town, rather it’s more likely to stop screening in the cinema. I left the office at 6 sharp, just to conveniently walked through KLCC and get ourselves a 8.40pm movie ticket. Then I went home and had a shower, changed to tracksuit (yes tracksuit!) before heading for the movie.

Due to my personal budget constraint, or another better saying - I am on a cost saving project each day, I parked my car just opposite my office, an open space car park where I had paid RM6.00 for a full day entry. Price rise kills… Really, I don’t mind walking through the Convention Centre, the KLCC Park to at least enjoy a little bit of the breeze. I was just concern of the drawback which might happen to me, and my sister, like what you read from the newspaper daily? So I made a sincere prayer in the cinema… “God, protect my car, cover us with your blood…..” Anyway, I am running out of the subject. But thank Jesus that I can still blog now.

The Island is one of the most fabulous movies I have seen in 2005, great cinematography and great story line. I can really feel what Michael Bay, the director of The Island is trying to say to his audience. Human clone was one of the research topics I actively engaged in my media classes at the university. I always curious and wanted to find more about the consequences of cloning. What if human clone exist? How would the world will be? Why people clone themselves? For vain? For longevity? It seems like the latter one is more appealing.

I really admire Caspian Tredwell-Owen’s imagination, man he is just incredible to me. All these while I only focus on the human side but never that I think in a human clone’s perspective. He is right, clone is not vegetable.
How can clone be vegetable? If clone is just like a plantation, all their organs will fail and become dysfunction.

What is he trying to say? Albert Laurent created Lincoln Six Echo and he said to him, “I give life so I can take away…” Sound familiar? Who does he think he is? God? Or a human that will also fail?

Michael Bay quoted,“Lots of sci-fi movies are much ado about nothing. What I liked about [The Island] is that it’s a universal thing: we all want to live longer. But how selfish would you be to achieve that? You could get a liver, a heart, kidneys, essential things. But I wanted to show people going for things that were just so crass, like fresh skin for a face-lift. For some woman who doesn’t want to go through the pain of childbirth and have stretch marks, why not have your clone birth for you? How disgusting is that? “

I don’t know if clone really exists, maybe there are hundreds or thousands already exist in this world, like the movie. They already have dolly, so what’s next? Despite human is much more complicated to be cloned, who knows maybe the laboratories are already putting the defected ones to sleep? I don’t know what to say now, this movie is so much different than other Science Fiction or any other horror films. Armageddon seems real but this speaks louder than any other films I’ve seen. This movie is alarming the world, the consequences of human’s stupidity in outsmarting Him.