tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154510617620998576.post7540707511656590815..comments2023-02-23T14:42:36.792-06:00Comments on A Little Clarity: surrogatesClairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14287953851355621624noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154510617620998576.post-14834657624478819972010-02-01T21:17:53.340-06:002010-02-01T21:17:53.340-06:00it definitely wasn't a movie that held togethe...it definitely wasn't a movie that held together if you tried to dive into its logic, considering that even the lamest surrogate they showed would obviously cost thousands of dollars to buy and more thousands to regularly maintain. how exactly can 99% of the people in the world afford these things?<br /><br />i just would have liked it better if the movie had acknowledged the fact that the hero got taken in by the bad guy, and then screwed millions of people over because he wanted to solve his own personal problems in his marriage. it would have been a morally shocking kind of ending, but it would have held together a little better at least, and it wouldn't have felt like the filmmakers were preaching at us with a message we've heard a thousand times before.<br /><br />even with all my griping, though, i still agree that it was a good movie.<br /><br />as far as there not being "enough" surrogate boobies ... how could there <i>ever</i> be enough?<br /><br />haha!Clairehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14287953851355621624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154510617620998576.post-6133988881670787182010-01-31T13:52:08.173-06:002010-01-31T13:52:08.173-06:00Despite the Coolness Factor in having there be art...Despite the Coolness Factor in having there be artificial people nearly everywhere you turned in that world -- where is this society located? Cos Shi-chan and I have to go there RIGHT NOW -- it struck me as being unrealistic that crime rates were almost non-existent. As I pointed out in <a href="http://www.kuroneko-chan.com/echoes/?p=1813#comment-32998" rel="nofollow">a comment on my review of the film</a>, you'd think that more people would be using their suris to commit crimes, just due to the anonymity/indestructability factor. You thought anonymous trolls were bad on the Internet??<br /><br />And <br /><i>'obviously there must be thousands or millions of paraplegics and other invalids who are totally screwed at the end because the surrogates get turned off.' </i><br />Ha ha! <i>Zing. </i>That whole 'technology is bad if it's abused' message has, in my opinion, been flogged into a fine glue, though various slightly-technophobic films and tv shows. Technology is a tool, so it's neither good nor bad. And if you have physically disabled people whose lives were enriched through the use of their Surrogates, who, now thanks to David Addison, can't use them at all, well, too bad, eh?<br /><br />All in all, a good film, though. Although there weren't enough Surrogate bOObies. ;-)Davecathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15890760806211337706noreply@blogger.com