No, not the dreadful last Roger Waters Pink Floyd effort. This is 2004's The Final Cut with Robin Williams. I had recorded it a few weeks ago off of the Independent Film Channel. This is a surprisingly intriguing film. Imagine being implanted with a device that will record everything you see and hear for your entire life. Your parents do this if they can afford it and then they tell you about it at some point in your life when they think you can handle it. When you die, a person called a "cutter" removes the implant and reduces the footage to a few select good memories that your loved ones want to see and they present them in a "rememory" ceremony, which is basically a movie of your life with all of the bad stuff edited out. Robin Williams plays a cutter. The film briefly explores some of the moral and ethical dilemmas of that technology (See QOTD) while also telling his story, which includes a very dark episode in his past. This isn't normally my kind of film and the "science fiction" description in its listing almost kept me away from it but I'm glad it didn't. I liked it a lot.
5 song iTune shuffle:
- Walking Towards Paradise - Robert Plant - Now And Zen
- Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye - Steam - Rock 'n Roll Relix 1968-1969
- Massacre/Canoes - Trevor Jones - The Last Of The Mohicans Soundtrack
- Stormtroopin' - Ted Nugent - Ted Nugent
- Hymn 43 - Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Quote of the Day
This girl was a complete wreck - drinking, drugs, in and out of schools. Then she turns 21... and she finds out about her Zoe implant. Complete 180. She's born again. Her knowing that someone would one day watch... transforms her into this kind, gentle, loving person.
Hasan, The Final Cut
Blog of the day is here.
Quote from said blog: "It was about 2-3 minutes into this film, that I realized that I am not the target audience for this film."
I know that experience well. -Rob
That film never even blipped on my radar before. It sounds like an interesting concept to explore, but the reality would kind of horrify me. Would you leave something like that in once you found out about it? How about living your life with someone who had one of those? Are those aspects dealt with in the film?
Yes, all of those aspects are dealt with. There are people in the film opposed to them. It's fascinating. I left a line out of the QOTD. The girl committed suicide by diving head first off of a building, destroying her implant in the process. It's a good film for a quiet evening.