Surrogates

This time I will talk about a film. I saw a few weeks ago in the cinema gold surrogates. It is an action thriller more than science fiction genre. In the gold surrogates plays the famous actor star Bruce Willis an FBI agent. Who investigates the murder of a genius college student. The stuent’s father invented the surrogates.

The story played in the nearby future, Whereby a scientist has an invention for handicap and paralysed people to live a normal life by using a humanoid robot version of them in the real live. They can do all the functions, that normal human being can, like walking, touching and feeling. But this great invention misused by a large corporation to promote a different more commercial way of live. So instead they created a reality in which humans live in isolation while only communicating with their fellow man through robots that serve as social surrogates and are better-looking versions of their human counterparts and they costumers can operate them from there bedrooms.

In the film we see also the typical cases of technology abuse. Like in the murder case the college student was murdered along with a hot girl. He met in a disco-club. Later in the investigation, it turned out to be a ugly fat man. This is in similarity with present time where people chatting or dating with unknown through the internet.

As the case grow more complicated, our hero feels that he needs to leave the safety-zone of operating his surrogate from his bedroom and step into the real world to solve this case. Later he discovered that the evil cooperation was intended to kill the scientist. Because he has a plan to destroys his own invent world. But he killed his son by mistake.

If you ask me about my own opinion. I say it is a very good entertainment action film. But the most fascinating about this film is the idea and the questions, it raise about our interaction with robotics technology in the future.