逃出克隆岛

When Significance of life is Unevenly Distributed...
                ----A Movie Review on " The Island"
It is a science-fiction with an intriguing plot that will stun all reviewers
It undertakes a depiction of future that both awes and frightens me
It is a revelation on a conduct of technology that goes beyond ethical norms.
  
    "The island" is a wonderful movie which takes you to the future. The plot is set in 2019.
    In the previous one-third of the movie, wiewers are deliberately miss-leaded. Suspence is created when all members in a special shelter all wearing the same white uniform universally longed for winning the first price of a lottery---to settle down in The Mystery Island. Viewers see these people conduct a very strict, but health diet, do physical exercise on visual-reality machines--ganranteeing them free of physical damage while ensuring the right intensity and portion of excercise. Viewers also see them learn to read and do work in a lab. Reasonably, conjecture is formed by viewers that thus is the healthy future life style after the alluged "Big Contamination".
    This early assumption is overthrown as the story propels. The bold, horrible truth gradually reveals. The Mystery Island turned out to be utterly a conspiracy and those "future human" turned out to be duplicants--products of a technology firm. Viewers proceeds to discover that in 2019 or so, wealthy people have the priviledge to take full advantages of cutting-edge technology to sponsor a duplication of themselves. The "products" are claimed by the firm to be vegetables-- a complete system of organs of human body deprived of brain-- which justify humanity of the operation, hence the firm founders and the customers are rendered free from the accusation of disrespectance of human life. If "sponsors" are in need of organs implantation, the duplicates will be the organ providers and this will be the cessation of their lifes.
    The movie put me in meditation on the real meaning of life, existence and identity. The duplicates are considered as "products" by laboratory workers, since technology at that time failed to develop vegetables from which organs, skins or reproductive capability could be directly harvested or harnessed. their sponsors are genetically the same as them, who are unaware of their existence. There are thousands of duplicates. Their existence is kept a secret, their identity is deprived at the beginning of embryotic stage. However, they get from "memory implantation" a certain message, a notion that justifies their being,that gives
them self-accpetance, that "You are very special. You're born for a reason."
   This could be understood scarstically in two ways.
   First, human assume that their being conveys a special evangelic significance. Indeed, they are born for a special reason. They stick to their uniqueness. But what human being put to those duplicates are cruel and inhuman. Duplicates are indeed also born for a reason--that is, for the mantenance of health and the convenience of their sponsors. Yet these duplicates have the same consciousness and emotions as normal human. The bravery and willingness to fight for their own survival is impressive and respectable. It taught me that it might be necessary for us to win identities through fights and struggles. Even when it comes that I AM a real being. I have mother and father and ancesters. But acknowledgement of my being depends on my attitude, my way of living.
   Another connotation of "You are very special" associates with the prevalentg American notion. Children, specially American kids, are taught in an early age that they are unique. This is considered to enhance their self-esteem and to build up their coompetence, which is to some extent in the juxtaposition of the philanthropic notion of "We are not so different after all." I admit that I am influenced by the "self-conciousness of uniqueness" by a considerably large scale, like I've undergone some memory imprint. But as I enter my adulthood and get to know people a bitter more, I start to question this. I AM special. But that won't wipe out the characteristics in me that also belonged to my generation. We have similarities. We understand each other. None of us is isolated though sometimes we are hit by the paroxysm of egocentricity. I am aspired by those duplicates who earned their own identity and value independent from their sponsor. If they can discover the true value of theirs, why can't I, without clinging to the illsion of extreme feeling-good uniqueness, work and live whole-heartedly to discover and dignify my own identity and value.

个人认为翻译成《岛》最合适。“岛”不仅是克隆人被蒙蔽的眼中唯一的天堂，也是克隆工厂的虚拟幻象，更是人类的贪婪冷漠与男女主角对正常生活(或者说是平等的权利)的向往。“岛”带给我们的是科技在人类贪欲下的挫败感，以及追求人权的希望和曙光。

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2005-11-25．21:00。
从一连串诡异、阴郁、沉重的梦魇中惊醒。
确切地说，依然是半梦半醒。
长达五六个小时的沉睡非但没有让我恢复精神，反而更加疲倦，仿佛被一件钝器击中。
梦魇的残片和巨大的悲凉感缠绕着我。隐约还记着梦中出现的真实世界和摹仿世界的模糊边界，面对生存的根本疑惑和惊惧。

慢慢地想起，自己是在看了《逃离克隆岛》后昏昏睡去。那些悲伤的片断立即涌现上来：

斯达韦尔德2D血泪模糊地从切割他的手术台上挣脱出来，带着浑身的管道和依然扎在腹部的刀锯，没有方向地狂奔，痛哭，哀嚎着。警卫们迅速上前制服了他，用绳索把他从地上活活拖回手术室。斯达韦尔德2D绝望地哭喊着：“我要去圣岛！你们答应过的！”赶来的医生在一旁只是冷漠地说了一句：“不要伤了他。”（以获取活体器官）

林肯6E和乔丹2D在逃离克隆岛时从同情他们的人类麦考德那里第一次听到了自己全部“存在”的真相。那是一种彻骨的残酷。纯真的乔丹2D显然还没有能力接受这样的事实，她近乎无力地辩驳道：“可是我有妈妈呀。我在农场长大，我有一条小狗，还有一辆脚踏车……”麦考德打断了她：“是的，是个粉色的小公主车，你骑到你奶奶家，你一按铃，她就用盘子装着小甜饼出来给你。” “是的……”“不是，那是植入的记忆。我的一个朋友是程序员，他给我看过。就12个故事，他们稍微改动一些细节，但是实际上都差不多。你以为自己在‘污染’前的生活，实际上根本没有发生过。”

在一系列生死逃亡中顽强地活下来的林肯6E和乔丹2D坐在一栋大厦的顶部，躲雨。度过这个夜晚，他们打算去寻找自己的“主人”，寻求帮助。乔丹2D打了个寒战。“真冷。”林肯6E轻轻将她搂在怀里。只是如此。在他们3－4年的“一生”中，他们不知道任何“男女之事”。他们只有一种相互间素朴的好感。而任何“不适度的接近”都会被及时地制止。而在这个雨夜，爱情降临在这对年轻的人类身上，他们却不自知。令人爱怜。令人哀怜。

影片结尾就象一切好莱坞大片一样。克隆岛被摧毁。所有的克隆人第一次看到了阳光。他们震惊了。像孩子一样（他们在本质上也确实就是孩子）奔跑，呼喊。他们冲出克隆岛，“平生”第一次看到了天空、大地、云彩、树木和山川。在黄色的土地上几千个穿着一模一样的雪白制服的人们第一次感受着真实的风沙和尘土，感受着真实的呼吸和生命。这一幕确实令人激动。那艘主人公梦里反复出现的美丽船只“Renavatio”（拉丁语，意味“复活，重生”）也已经启航。

可是，“娜拉出走之后”，又该如何呢？他们进入到这样一个更大的“新天新地”里，真的能够“重生”吗？我们这个世界，又何尝不是一个更加庞大，管制技术更加精细、隐秘，以至于几乎无人能够察觉的“克隆岛”呢？

是的，在我们这个时代，许多人面对生存，已经没有任何困惑了。我们活得舒适、坦然，获得了“真实的幸福”。我们被驯化为接受一切主流价值观和游戏规则的人，努力地“奋斗”，通过这个世界最重要的那些测试，成为合格的“有用人材”，然后过上“成功而体面”的生活。这从本质上和那些被豢养的克隆人似乎没有太大的差别。他们存在的唯一价值就是提供有用的“活体器官”。而我们通过消泯自己的个性和无限的可能性，把自己塑造成为专门的“人材”，为这个世界“所用”。唯一的不同是，克隆人还会感觉到撕裂般的痛苦与哀伤，而我们，已经不再痛苦了。也许，还很快乐（这不正是这个时代最IN的词语吗？）。

在恍惚之间，想起了庄子清冷而睿利的寓言：

“惠子谓庄子曰：“吾有大树，人谓之樗。其大本臃肿而不中绳墨，其小枝卷曲而不中规矩。立之涂，匠者不顾。今子之言，大而无用，众所同去也。”庄子曰：“子独不见狸狌乎？卑身而伏，以候敖者；东西跳梁，不避高下；中于机辟，死于罔罟。今夫嫠牛，其大若垂天之云。此能为大矣，而不能执鼠。今子有大树，患其无用，何不树之于无何有之乡，广莫之野，彷徨乎无为其侧，逍遥乎寝卧其下。不夭斤斧，物无害者，无所可用，安所困苦哉！”

All the reasons i love this movie are that there is the Scarlett Johanasson~~~
I nearly feel much like magic to attract me to enjoy this movie.
After Lost in Translation ,i find Scarlett the most charming girl i met.
"We could live like real people."
when i hear this ,i was about to burst into tears~~~
A wonderful movie ,a wonderful girl~~~

    科学的发展经历过宗教的百般阻挠，它克服了，现在它又碰到了新的难题——道德。二十一世纪最伟大的发明是什么？克隆应该算得上了吧，君不见许多人为了它不惜以身试法、铤而走险，韩国的“克隆之父”黄禹锡更是不惜作假欺骗国民以达成他个人的所谓科学建树。让我们看一下克隆的历史，1952年·克隆蝌蚪——1972年·基因复制——1978年·试管婴儿——1997年·克隆羊——1998年·克隆批量化——2000年·克隆人类近亲——2001年·克隆人？，看到这里，各位是否有些惊心动魄？

    本片的主题即是克隆人，一家克隆组织为了赢得巨利，为正常人类提供克隆服务，亦即克隆一个与原型一模一样的人，为原型提供各种更换用的身体零件，他们死后的价值远比生前更高。该组织对克隆人宣称外面的世界是经过辐射污染的，所以他们必须生活在与外隔离的建筑里，并且每隔一段时间随机抽选一名克隆人去“神秘岛”，实则是该名克隆人实现他价值的时候到了。而其中的一个克隆人林肯基于人类的本能——好奇心，发现了这个秘密，于是他带上即将被送去“神秘岛”的乔丹逃离了该建筑，并且找到自己的原型，破坏了克隆组织的建筑，使得所有被拘禁的克隆人都自由了。

    看电影的时候，我当然是站在主人公的立场上，当主人公设下圈套使杀手误认原型是克隆人而将其杀死时，我还暗暗叫好，但看完电影仔细回想，站在原型的立场上，才发现这个故事有些可怕。试想我身家上亿，而正好有这么个公司提供克隆服务，我当然愿意花个上百万买个保险以备所需，而克隆人的生产过程我肯定不会过问，谁吃猪肉还得知道猪是怎么养的，但哪天那个克隆人就出现在我面前，要求我的帮助，最后还设计取代了我，故事倒过来看还真透着那么一点阴森。其实重点就在于当克隆人具备独立的思想时，他还能不能被称为原型的克隆人，还能不能作为一种商品进行交易。听着有点绕口，人与人的区别就在于独立的人格，而当克隆人具有独立思想、独立人格时，他与原型就产生了区别，或者说他就是一个独立的人，而非原型的附属品，所以再把这时的克隆人视作商品就相当于倒卖人口了。而目前世界上绝大多数国家都是禁止生殖性克隆人的，但在治疗性克隆的领域还在继续探索中。

    一项科学技术的产生必将推动人类进程的发展，但与此同时，它也必将成为双刃剑，至于如何好好的把握这项技术，使它真正为人类服务而不是成为商人获得非法利润的武器，这么高深的问题当然留给科学家和法律家考虑了，而我只希望睁开眼时不会看到和我一模一样的脸。