I had no clue what the hell was going on throughout the whole thing. first it seemed like a "cloning is bad" movie, then a ghost movie, then a skitz movie, then a ghost movie, then a psycho movie, then a skitz movie, then a "wtf? he's ACTUALLY 2 people?"
then of course the ending. it just made absolutly no sense
Yes indeed.
It s clonning-is-bad bad movie.
He is two people: Adam the first, and zacharie, the psycho-killer son of evil professor de Niro.
He mixed up the genes in order to have the appearance of Adam 1st and the memory of zak.
Whaaaaat? The memory is encoded in the genes? So I know a mix of the knowledge of my parents from the moment I get born?
Now back to my main problem in this movie: the dangers with cloning.
None of those shown are valid to me nor to many scientists/investors in genetic research. Crosses may block the devil, but it wont stop science or money.
I shall ask a few questions:
Having two persons being exactly the same (clones, twins, whatever) and making them live different lives, are they the same after 8 years? 20 years?
Given the price of a cloning operation, who would be cloned with personal money? with state money? with corporate money?
Do Human Rights apply to clones? If I were a clone, would I accept having less/no rights?
If I am cloned after my death, is this clone me? Does he have my identity? Does he own what I own?
What if I am cloned while still alive?
Wish you happy philosophic times!
:)
Ok, they're comingout of the church, and she doesn't remember her professor when she was an undergraduate ? She's not much past that age. Then, he and she are hostile to him, and claim they don't have any time as they in flat despair flop down the steps - rudely walking away. This isn't how people behave.
At the restaurant, the husband gets even more hostile at the man trying to help them. What SHAM emotional responses.
I guess I'll keep watching, but expect many more fake emotional scenes. Will the parents agree yet fight the process the whole time ? Probably. Something will be backwards, won't it... the whole way through.
"Ok, they're comingout of the church, and she doesn't remember her professor when she was an undergraduate ? She's not much past that age."
LOL. I was thinking the same thing!
And then you gotta love how creepy it is for DeNiro's character to be practically stalking the couple at the cemetary/church out of the blue. And they went with him!!!
No it isn't normal behavior.
"Lorelai Gilmore, disappointing mothers since 1968."
Brooz, the answers:
No, they aren't the same, even after just a few minutes, they have very different developments.
We don't know the price of a cloning, and all 3 methods of payment will surely be used.
Yes, all rights apply to clones, but that isn't saying much, since if you murder them in the womb with a clone abortion, not much to having equal human rights - since there ain't no after birth timer.
No, the clone is not you. The clone has it's own identity, but you'll have a hard time convincing the clone you're an idiot. He doesn't own anything of yours, and neither do you of his, unless you're both commies because the democrats won for another 40 years. Of course then the state owns everything you can see as well, and can murder you both for being a mini-collective that might have more allegiance to eachother than to the state. ( sorry for the digression)
If you are cloned while still alive, all the above still applies. If religion is your hangup - don't worry, I'm sure God has an extra soul he can insert, hasn't run out at six billion plus, and since it was planned on before you were cloned, a long, long time ago, the fretting for own personal overblown ego of having some real competition and proving you're a failure once and for all when your clone surpasses you, and the fear of seeing more than a mirror tells you about yourself ( or who you might have been) is likely the true terror.
( THAT THERE RIGHT ABOVE IS CALLED PHILOSOPHY, SON. )
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