I mean, c'mon! The kid having flashbacks to his previous life? Cloning is creating a sort of identical twin in a different envronment/timeframe, not reincarnation, for God's sake!
shareI agree, but it is an old idea in the science fiction about 'genetic recall' or 'genetic memory'.
shareActually, I think the film messed up by not clearly thinking up a plausible technique for the memory transfer. The father guessed that some kind of cognitive manipulation was performed, but more needed to be added to the film. I would added the following to the movie:
1. Mysterious "sessions" should have been shown or alluded to where Dr. Wells was performing some special procedure on Adam (whereby a mental cloning procedure was being done, as opposed to the physical cloning that we had already seen)
2. After the Nanny tells Mr. Duncan that Zach's dad was a medical doctor, Mr. Duncan quickly checks on the history of Zach's dad, confirming that he is Dr. Wells, and that he was an MD/PHD, who also specialized in neuroscience
3. When Duncan confronts Dr. Wells, at the VERY LEAST, Duncan should have correctly assumed that the mysterious sessions were what caused the memory transfer. Better yet, some mention of the technique used should have been mentioned by Dr. Wells.
The director was wrong not to address that issue. It lowered the I.Q. of the film, and audiences cannot tolerate that.
Hey anyone else notice it's a horror film? Which means it doesn't have to make sense. I mean, come on, next you'll be saying you've heard of a video tape that kills people........
shareyou cant just say "im making a horror movie f.ck the plot!", maybe you can if the subject but come on the movie is pretending to be so sophisticated talking about cloning, ethical values, religon even. when you are given such a subject you expect a decent explanation. if the intention was to make a dumb thriller they shouldt of pretended to have a point!!
share>Hey anyone else notice it's a horror film?
Yes.
>Which means it doesn't have to make sense.
Why not?
The Ring makes sense. It's fantasy, but it makes sense.
This film is non-sense.
~Iain
I agree 100% with Sageev's suggestions. The movie was so illogical that it prevented me from enjoying it. Instead I kept saying "That would never happen" and it was so implausible...after all, you have your biological parents' DNA but it doesn't make you remember your mother's and father's childhoods that happened before you were born...why would a clone have his donor's memory?
I certainly don't have any memories of my mother's childhood, do you?
The movie just sort of made me angry because it was playing off people's fears of science. It bothers me that people are afraid of science and technology.
"Enough of that technical talk, Foo!"
If the horror, suspense and frightening aspects had been well handled, then obviously the plot doesn't have to make as much sense. The fact was that those aspects were *terrible*, it wasn't frightening at all, so you were left with the scientific and storyline implausibilities.
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Has a human being ever been cloned? Let me think on that... NO! So why is this even a discussion?
shareActually... aww **** it I'll leave this to die.
Before you start bitching that what I say is false check a credible source (so no bullsh*t... ok?)
"Has a human being ever been cloned? Let me think on that... NO! So why is this even a discussion?"
Actually, every identical twin is a clone of his or her twin because they have exactly the same genetics. So, yes, many times. Secondly, we are discussing it because it was the plot of the stupid movie, which we just so happen to be discussing on this message board. Should we NOT be discussing the plot of the movie on the message board for the movie? Then what are these message boards for?
"Enough of that technical talk, Foo!"
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................I'm just old enough to remember sitting in a high school civics class where we debated whether an individual who was born as a result in vitro fertilization could legally run for President, because he or she was not a natural born citizen of the United States. I've seen old horror movies, made years before the first heart transplant, that more then suggested if someone got a body part from someone they would be possessed by the downer; think "Hands of the Strangler". New medical technologies also seems to generate misconceptions and Hollywood always seems to help the process....................There is no scientific reason a clone would remember the experiences of his or her donor anymore then any of us would remember what our parents experienced before we were born.
True genius is a beautiful thing, but ignorance is ugly to the bone.