DVD | The Island

You have been chosen. It’s these four words that the last remaining inhabitants on earth can’t wait to hear. It means they’ve won the lottery and will be going to the Island, the last inhabitable place on Earth, paradise found.

You see, there was a huge biological l disaster that contaminated most of the world and killed off most of it’s inhabitants. But survivors are found and treated at a facility, and when chosen get to go to the Island.

But if the the world really was contaminated, and unihabitable, they why do they keep finding new survivors , and why does the lottery always seem fixed. And what of there meaningless work, what does it achieve? These are dangerous questions, but ones that residen Lincoln Six-Echo can’t help but wonder.

And his wondering and investigating leades him to the horrific truth that leads him and his best friend Jordan Two-Delta on a race for their lives.

In this fast paced action spectacular, Michael Bay not only wows us with intense action and special effects, but makes us laugh with well placed humour, and causes us to think about the value of human life, and more importantly; what is human life.

Spoiler Warning
You see, Lincoln Six-Echo is just one of hundreds of specially grown humans, grown from their sponsors DNA, specifically as a life insurance premium. If they need replacement parts, they’ve got exact replicate parts just waiting to be harvested.

Personal Thoughts
The Island not only gets you thinking about the value of human life and what makes a human, human, it also poses so other worthy dilemmas. If you have to answer the question of where a cloned object becomes human, and there for worth the chance at life, it’s not a huge leap to the whole abortion debate, though I’m sure that wasn’t on Michael Bay’s agenda.

It also brings up the question of how far do we go to help others, as the subject of cloning, stem cell research and all these new fields of medical research promise us with more and more solutions to our fragile state, but bring with them even bigger moral questions.

I’m not sure where I stand on this one, but the question basically comes down to is it ok to TAKE one life to save another?