2018's "Clones" is a science fiction film starring Keanu Reeves, which can also be said to be his dream come true.
The film tells the story of Will (Keanu Reeves), a scientist who studies how to transfer consciousness to a robot after death, loses his family in an accident.
Grief-stricken and desperate, Will decides to use his professional abilities to back up all his family's memories, and then finds a friend who specializes in biological cloning, Ed (Thomas Middletage), to clone his family's bodies.
Hoping to bring his family back to life, the desperate attempt was fraught with difficulties and even triggered a hidden crisis.
To be honest, "Clone" should be a very inexplicable movie in the eyes of many viewers.
The film explores many technical issues, not only conscious cloning and transfer, but also robots, as well as human cloning and memory elimination.
And in the process of advancing the plot, new settings are constantly emerging to fill in the things that were not mentioned earlier, which can be said to be a script with many bugs.
In addition, "Clones" can clearly see the embarrassment of the budget, with only one robot fight special effect, which is simply the level of a low-budget sci-fi TV series.
No wonder some netizens said that this is a science fiction movie with fifty cent special effects.
But I just love this story hopelessly.
First, there's Keanu Reeves' performance
Keanu Reeves is known to be a tragic figure in real life.
He had a daughter with his deceased girlfriend, Jennifer Sem, who was stillborn, and Jennifer Sem died in a car accident two years later.
In addition, his sister Kim Reeves has leukemia, and Keanu Reeves accompanies his sister for a long time.
So it's fitting to have Keanu Reeves play a scientist who wants to bring his wife and daughter back to life.
Moreover, the story itself is too homely
Unlike previous sci-fi films, Clones no longer sees "the use of technology to bring the dead back to life" as an evil and immoral act.
The script even defends the protagonist's actions, and the issues that arise in the film are clearly written by a cyberpunk-loving author.
Because instead of treating the acts of "shifting consciousness to mechanical bodies," "cloning humans," and "erasing memories," the story doesn't take as a taboo, it exudes great yearning.
If one day, we can revive a dead relative or friend, replace the sick body with a new one after it is damaged, or transfer consciousness to the robot's body.
Or even polyclonalize yourself so that you can juggle your family and work?
This movie is simply a fan movie that embraces cyberpunk elements!
Therefore, even if the axe traces of the script of "The Clone" are so obvious, it is simply a piece of the script of the two movies.
Then through the protagonist's large number of functional dialogues to connect the flaws.
But also made many bridge sections that are not particularly necessary in good attempts to increase tension.
But I still love this movie to death.
Because the story itself hit me in the hood door.
The small details that at first glance look like crooked buildings and deviate from the main line are exactly the kind of things that I would listen to the "Blade Runner" soundtrack at the night market, eat sashimi from the roadside stall, and watch the people coming and going, and think about it on a daily basis.
In the movie, the little girl Zoe (Arya Lerik Loeb) draws graffiti on the table like a sheep and a unicorn, and finally the father touches the graffiti on the table in order to erase the family's memories of the little girl.
At the time, I couldn't help but think of the unicorn that appeared in The Dream of Deckard (Harrison Ford) in Blade Runner, a memory that no one remembers, only he knows.
And I believe these hints are definitely not accidental, and the author of this story himself is a crazy cyberpunk lover.
So, while the film has a lot of minor issues, for me, Clone is a sci-fi movie with a twisty story and a pretty interesting theme.