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03 Mar, 2009
Excellent movie
2 of 3 found this helpful The Island tells the story of a corporate conspiracy in which customers buying a top-end "health insurance policy" are unaware that their "policy" -- which will provide them organs, tissues in the event of an illness or accident -- is actually a living person. The policy holders are told the company creates clones who never achieve consciousness, so it's not cruel. Secretly, however, the company has discovered clones -- and their organs -- will not survive unless the clone experience life. In order to protect its secret and its profits, the company keeps the clones hidden and lies, telling the clones they cannot survive outside the compound because the earth is contaminated.
The two main characters are clones who discover the truth and escape. What I like best about the story is the fact that it is so realistic. It's not like companies that lie and cheat to make a profit don't exist already.
You, the viewer, discover the truth with the characters. It is not obvious up front. To cover for the deaths of those who need to file claims on their "policy," the clone population is told the missing people won the lottery and left to live on "the island," the only remaining place on earth that is not contaminated. You follow the characters through their journey as they come to terms with the fact that everything they know and believe about themselves and the world is a lie and that they are regardes as mere "products."
The action in the movie is, IMHO, a little over the top. There's no way two people would survive the kinds of stunts these two complete during their escape. But part of the fun of a movie is setting aside that disbelief and just enjoying the ride.
The characters are real and not trite, with some surprises in terms of both character development and the resulting plot. Great soundtrack too.
03 Jun, 2006
A good read, educational too
1 of 1 found this helpful I saw this movie and read the book back in 1978. When I took my daughter to the Holocaust museum, she said she wanted more books about the Holocaust. (She is an avid reader). I read it again before she did and was impressed that the author managed to weave all the major historical points into his fictional story -- incuding Babi Yar, the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, partisan fighting, the way the Russians left land mines in Kiev, Auschwitz, methods of tortue, an SS man's story (something you seldom get), and the reactions of several Aryans and conscientious objectors. It really gives you a good overview of all that was going on.
04 Aug, 2006
World of Tent-makers very informative, easy read
This book talks about the life cycle of the eastern tent caterpillars in an easy-to-read narrative. I have another book on eastern tent caterpillars which is very scientific and harder to read. But this is very easy to follow, no matter what your level of knowledge and experience in entomology. The author describes the life cycle of the insect from before the eggs hatch, detailing how they survive cold and do not freeze. It takes the reader through the caterpillars lives through molting, feeding, regularing temperature, tent building, etc. right up to pupation and then the emerging moth. He then follows the moth till she lays eggs and the cycle begins again.
The only negative is that the author tends to get a little sidetracked describing the environment in which all this happens. I suppose it's helpful to see what other critters are doing at each stage in the eastern tent caterpillars' lives, but it can be a little distracting. If you like vivid description and contextual detail you won't mind it.