Surrogates: Lifeâo[oe] Only Shallower:
[Via Science Not Fiction]
The world of Surrogates, people venture forth into the world via sleek and sexy avatars from the comfort of elaborate wireless hookups in their bedrooms. Lifeâo[oe]Only Better goes the technology tagline. In theory, the scene wonâo[dot accent]t take place for another half century - unless youâo[dot accent]re watching the film in Los ...
[More] I was struck by how much this felt like a movie based on a Philip K. Dick story. The paranoia, the inability to know what was real or not, the disconnection of human emotion from consequence. It even had a novel drug - sparking, where the surrogates slightly electrocuted each other.
I really liked it. Very much a genre movie without a whole lot of deep thought about the message that was there. Just put us into this world, and solve a murder. But it is a world where you can never be sure just who is operating the surrogate you are interacting with, where there is not a single human-human interaction or even a touch until the very end.
It did not do well at the box office but I think it will gain in stature as time goes one. It posits important questions about what makes us human that are not easily answered.
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