Re:6th Day's plot does not rely on cloning (Score 2)

I agree completely with Viereo that this movie doesn't need cloning as the "evil idea".

In this movie, cloning is made to look evil, but the "cloning" in the movie is not anything like what we know of as modern-day cloning.

Today, we are nowhere NEAR what they had in the movie. We have, so far, cloned a sheep. Dolly was NOT grown in two hours, she gestated naturally for the term that sheep normally gestate for, and Molly did not have the "memories" of the "original" Molly.

In this movie, we are made to believe that: 1) clones can be grown in two hours, and 2) they can have all of the same memories, et al.

The evil doesn't come from the fact that there are two people walking around with the same genetic code (if that were evil, I wouldn't want to be an identical twin). The evil (or moral ambiguity, if you prefer) came from the fact that there could be two of the exact same person. Same genetic code, same age, and same memories.

If you take away the Same genetic code issue, but are left with the Same Age and Same Memories issue, this movie would still be about identity-theft and the idea of trying to find yours. Think about it. If this movie was about Arnold's character being some guy abducted off the street, having his memory wiped and a new one installed, then having plastic surgery to make him look like someone else, then the issues of the movie still hold true. It is the theft of the identity that we have a problem with, not the idea of cloning.

Truthfully, I found this movie to be frightful, it is SO hypocritical. In the beginning of the movie, all we hear from Arnold is the wrongness of clones. Then he gets cloned and finds out he is a clone. Well, then clones become ok, and the movie becomes about the evil that the corporation is doing by cloning people, and in the end, the Clone Arnold goes off to be a happy person in some other country. I also do not like the religious undertones that the filmmakers are FORCING down my throat. First off, the movies is called "The Sixth Day", in reference to the idea that man was created by God on the sixth day of creation, and during the whole movie, people are whinning about cloning as "Playing God". Cloning is not playing God, creating the idea of genetics and implementing it in the Universe is Playing God. Cloning is just playing around in the World that God created. If you think that is playing God, then using fire is also playing God (because, Prometheus stole fire from the Gods and gave it to humans.)

Anyways, Katz should have chosen a MUCH better movie/book to use as a jumping off point for a discussion on cloning.