[extropy-chat] Future friendly movies

[Giu1i0 Pri5c0]

Following up on what I wrote yesterday on "Future friendly movies" I plan to 
go see the movie "The Island" today. From the reviews and the trailers it 
appears that the film is well done (with the right mix of action, sex, ...) 
and future friendly in the sense that the two heroes are clones created to 
provide spare body parts for transplants, who eventually escape to have a 
normal life. Viewers should be left with the impression that clones can be 
perfectly normal people. See also the last comment of the Charlotte Observer 
reviewer quoted below, this is the reaction good future friendly movies 
should produce.
Internet Movie Database <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399201/>: Lincoln 
Six-Echo (McGregor) is a resident of a seemingly utopian but contained 
facility in the mid 21st century. Like all of the inhabitants of this 
carefully controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to the 
"The Island" - reportedly the last uncontaminated spot on the planet. But 
Lincoln soon discovers that everything about his existence is a lie. He and 
all of the other inhabitants of the facility are actually human clones whose 
only purpose is to provide "spare parts" for their original human 
counterparts. Realizing it is only a matter of time before he is 
"harvested," Lincoln makes a daring escape with a beautiful fellow resident 
named Jordan Two-Delta (Johansson). Relentlessly pursued by the forces of 
the sinister institute that once housed them, Lincoln and Jordan engage in a 
race for their lives to literally meet their makers.
[Trailers<http://www.imdb.com/rg/title-tease/trailers/title/tt0399201/trailers>
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Charlotte Observer<http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/entertainment/movies/12312190.htm>:
"The Island" provides a cinematic backdrop to the debate regarding stem 
cells research, which some fear could one day lead to human cloning. Messing 
around with human cells creates moral questions, which is why it was a 
surprise two weeks ago when Sen. Bill Frist, R-Tenn., bucked fellow 
conservatives. He announced his support for government-funded research on 
human embryonic stem cells.
The reviewer concludes: " I hope the debate over stem-cell research and the 
debate over human cloning (it will happen one day) isn't reduced to 
religious rhetoric. If there's a way that science can help me stay 
physically fit and beat the diseases lurking in my body -- and I don't have 
a moral problem with the method -- then I want in on it."
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