We saw “The Island” yesterday - great movie!
July 30th, 2005
Boo (Sherwood) and I watched “The Island” yesterday and we both thought it was pretty good! I give it a 8; Boo gave it a 7.5 (he’s a harder grader ;P ). It was action-packed, with car chases, things blowing up left and right!!!
Hidden in the action is a deeper side of the movie, which raises the morality of cloning. Being a Christian, I am against it as I strongly believe in the uniqueness of each individual since each of us is created by God’s own hands. In the movie, the cloning is for the purpose of replacing malfunctioning/failing body parts, but since the scientists could not clone the individual parts alone and without the clones actually being in a conscious state, the clones are, in essense, real human beings in every way (they have feelings, emotions, and thoughts). They had a scene where they cut up a clone to take out his liver for his “master”; it was incredibly inhumane!
I don’ t know about others, but if my life can only be prolonged by exchanging someone else’s life for mine, then I would choose rather not live. This movie came at an opportune time, with all the current debate on stem cells - hope this movie will make people think more in the shoes of the person/life that is sacrificing and less of what we can gain at other people/lives’ expense.
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1. Sherwood | July 30th, 2005 at 12:11 pm
maybe it is coincidence, after the movie, when we have dinner at Mama Mia, an Italian resteraunt, the CNN just showed the news that the Senate majority leader, Frist, contrary to many republicans, expressed his support to embryo stem cell research. This is a very dramatic change and it may alter the direction of Bush administration’s stand on this issue. Frist’s speech got wide applause from the research community, and even his colleagues at the senate. I guess because he is a physican himself, that background adds a lot of credibility. For some reason because of the media, many people think stem cell is killing baby, just like killing the clones in the move. In fact it is not. The stem research is using the cells that are about to be destroyed. If they were about to destroy anyway, why not turn it to something more useful?
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