Ethics

This is a science fiction movie that is set into the future world. It involves a world where clones happen to be artificially bred and later on kept in a sterile environment within a confinement. Here, they are fed and at the same time kept healthy up to the time when their real world counterpart will need a body part to be extracted from them. Other clones especially the women are kept until they give birth and the baby that is from the clone is given to the real parents in the real world. The couples have to pay a top rate of five million dollars for a single clone. The island is therefore invented as a place which is free from pathogens so as to keep the clones out of their true purpose and at the same time to keep then out of infections. Later on, the clones discover the truth and they want to escape from the island. Lincoln Six Echo and Jordan Two Delta are the two clones who find the truth and finally escape from this bondage.

For the first one hour of this film, the plot can be described as sophisticated and intelligent but in the second part it is full of a long chase for the clones by detectives. In the world today, there are a lot of heated debates on cloning which are taking place. Some people believe that cloning is illegal and therefore should not be done on human beings. Others believe that cloning is immoral and unethical and therefore should not be conducted. However, there are some other people who believe that it is a breakthrough into the future and that using cloning human beings will be able to fight some of the problems that they have which they have never been able to overcome.

This is the same case that happens in the film. It can be said that the highlights has not been abundant action sequence but it is a brief interlude where Lincoln the clone comes into contact with the original person who is Tom Lincoln. We find that the real person is from Scotland and speaks with a heavy accent but the clone Lincoln does not. They conflict as the cloned Lincoln tries to imitate the real Lincoln and this irritates the real Lincoln.

The point that the director is trying to pass across is that if cloning was allowed, it would only add more problems with the already existing ones. The movie tries to bring out the point that even though we may be in a position to clone and offer some solution to some problems, we will still be creating more problems to ourselves. This is clearly demonstrated by the point of view that the movie takes which can be described as paranoid and funny.

There are so many things that are left unexplained in the movie and difficult to understand and this is a clear indication of how a bad decision it would be to allow human cloning. Some of the issues that are presented in the movie that supports this is the fact that we are not sure of who washes Lincoln the clones clothes when he hands them over as he only finds them magically in the closet the next morning. Lincoln is demonstrated as a person who is never able to figure out what is happening and therefore keeps asking questions so as to find out the truth.

I agree with the concept and the theme that is being demonstrated in the movie. The movies are totally against cloning of human beings and this is the reason why it offers no solution to some of the puzzles that it creates concerning the clones. Even though they want to find the truth about themselves, these clones have not been able to succeed in any of these efforts and therefore they are the ones who seem to suffer. It is unethical and cloning should under no means be allowed to take place in the scientific world.