So now for a change from the norm. I’ve gone to a cinema for this week’s review. And it’s Surrogates.
Society has discovered how to make humanoid robots that look better than and act like the real thing (i.e. human) whilst being controlled by their operators elsewhere. Over time, humans stay at home in their apartments whilst they control their surrogate version out on the real world. Eventually small pockets of resistance form, and in these camps reside people that don’t want to use surrogates at all, to the point of destroying them.
The story picks up where two people are murdered via their surrogates, one of whom is related to the creator of the machines. Bruce Willis ends up trying to solve the first homicide in years not only by using his FBI issued surrogate, but also by having to leave the safety of his home.
Of course, it’s a good film, relying only slightly on the action segments. The story behind it is intriguing, especially since it’s plausibly not too far into the future that we may well see this happen for ourselves. You may argue that it’s happening now with MMORPGs, the gamer controlling an avatar instead of a robot, and this may well be food for thought.
I do have to admit, as soon as I got home I logged into World of Warcraft. Ahh, irony…
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