The Island

In an isolated building, thousands of people are trapped. A theory goes around this building among the people who lives there. All the people are ‘’the survivors’’, who has survived something, which has killed every other person outside the building. There is absolutely no life outside this particular building. They are lucky to be here, because they were rescued. Their only hope in life, is to win some kind of lottery, which means they are going to be moved to a sacred place called The Island, instead of living in this building, where they do everything the same way everyday. Everything in this building, which they live in, is a very sterile environment. Everything is white. Everything is placed in a special order, and everything is normal for these people. What they don’t know is, that they are actually clones. They’ve been captured, to participate in a huge experiment, made by some rich men – including a man called Dr. Merrick.
From the moment they were picked, till they were ‘’born as a clone’’ they have been laid in a building with lots of clones next to each other. Every clone sees the same ‘’show’’ about how great this ‘’Island’’ is. They have been hypnotised into wanting something, they didn’t even know existed, before they were coming to this place. When they are born as clones, they all wants to go to The Island, because this should be the dream place to be.
Dr. Merrick is the man who rules everything in this isolated building. He knows every little detail of the persons who are cloned. He runs their life, and he has giving them all a name, or a number to keep them separated. He knows what he is doing is illegal, but he is doing it anyway, and he makes money on other peoples life.
There are lots of buildings. And in every building they do different things. A clone called Lincoln Six Echo has been in the safe building for many years. He is tired of how much everyday looks like each other. He begins to wonder why they are actually there, why the workers can decide what they should eat, what they should be working with – and where the wires are going. He wants answers.
One day, Lincoln Six Echo is climbing around the building to meat up with a friend, who works in another place in the building. This guy seems a little strange, and he seems to know more, than he says he does. Lincoln Six Echo gets curios, while he’s going back to his own place. He sees a bug flying around a ladder. Lincoln Six Echo begins to think, that it has to come from the outside, which means there has to be life outside their buildings. Lincoln Six Echo catches it, and brings it back to his place. Here he starts to look at it carefully, and he begins to realize that they had been lied to for lots of years. This is a set up for the movie – a set up to what is going to happen later, where Lincoln Six Echo and Jordan Two Delta runs off.
But he has no other proves than a bug, which he found in a place he didn’t belong to, therefore, Lincoln Six Echo begins to look around in different buildings. He hikes around a building he has never been in before. There are strange things, he had never experienced before, things he didn’t even know about. He has come to the medical part, where he finds some clothing, dressed up like the nurses, so he wouldn’t get recognized. Still he tries to keep a low profile, and he gets to see the two persons, who had won the lottery, and who was promised to go to the Island. One of them was a woman. She was pregnant, and was about to give birth. Right after she had born, she was getting killed, and the baby was giving to the woman she was cloned from, and her husband.
The other person, who had won the lottery, was a big black guy, who realized what was going on, before he was killed. He went completely crazy, and started to run. But they caught him, and killed him. Lincoln Six Echo saw all this happen, and he knew at this point, that the building he had been living in for years wasn’t a safe place to be, like they were told. And there was no Island to look forward to.
Jordan Two Delta is a close friend of Lincoln Six Echo’s. They have known each other for a long time, and it seems like they are a bit more intimate than what is legal in this place. Apparently the connection between a man and a woman must not happen in these buildings. Especially in a sexual way. But after Lincoln Six Echo has discovered what is really going on in these buildings, he runs directly to Jordan Two Delta’s room, to tell her not to go. She was the one who had won the lottery, while Lincoln Six Echo was gone. He convinces her, and they begin to run. In the meantime, Dr. Merrick and his team have discovered, that Lincoln Six Echo has figured everything out, and they begin to chase them. But they do no catch them, before it is too late. They are gone from the building.

This film is extremely relevant to a theme like ours, about cloning, science and technology. Everything is used in this movie, and especially cloning get’s a huge negative side. There are pros and cons about cloning, but this move particularly sets it all in a big negative shadow. The way they are using cloning in this movie, is very extreme.