The Final Cut (2004) is an interesting futuristic movie. It projects a future not too far away, and centers around a device that is implanted in the brain (even as a fetus) that records your every movement. Your eyes act as a lens and the recording is of everything you see.
At the end of your life, the device is taken back by the company, but you can ask for memory service, where all your friends and family can see your life...and edited version of course. And who does the editing? An exclusive group called "cutters." Of which Robin Williams, in an unusually quiet and subdued role, is the best cutter around. He takes the lives of--let us say, not nice people--and makes a beautiful memory service video for all the loved ones.
There are protesters to this practise, and intrigues (mainly Mira Sorvino) around the life of Williams' character. And though the film is not as chilling as some dystopian movies, especially in that it only covers this one aspect of the future society, it still gives a lot to contemplate.
What makes great dystopian fiction is that you can see how it could come about. You can look at current trends and say, "Wow, this could happen." Re-read 1984 by Orwell and you can see how much of it has happened.
The Final Cut also intrigued me because I do some video editing, and work with videographers. How would a whole life be edited? What would make the cut, and what would be left behind? And would the final cut, truly represent the life led, or be just a fiction, a nice video news release, that does not show the unseemly parts?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment