I've Got a Feeling I'd Stay a Meatbag

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So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. (Genesis 1:27)

I had a feeling, that I would hate Surrogates. However, when I expect to hate something, I'm secretly hoping to love it. There have been few films I've expected to hate and then end up loving (Kingdom, Unforgiven, and I am Legend). Surrogates, a movie based on a comic book, is definitely a movie I wrongly pre-judged.

The movie is about human ability to live their lives through a surrogate, that is, through a customized, human-looking robot. This means you choose what you look like in the real world, but actually sit all day controlling. Its still your mind, just a different exterior, which means of course, now the world is filled with lots of really hotties (think Stepford Wives but all of society, and still functioning brains).

No detail went untouched in this movie. Actors down to the extras were good looking, unless you were a meatbag, which is a vulger insult the surrogates called the humans. Scenes with surrogates, I noticed, used special soft lighting and lenses to enhance the youthful look of the characters, but scenes with regular humans looked more rugged, probably using a more harsh lens to record them. Notice how you almost never see shots of both beautiful surrogate and non-surrogate in the same close-up shot together?

The movie sets up a good debate: what are the drawbacks to living in a society where discrimination based on looks no longer exists, and murder and rape went down as a result. What is the harm in using another body to represent you through the daily? You'd never have to leave your house, and if you decide to, you can charge your robot as you go about your errands. The movie addresses the debate of human life and the God-like complex of man.

The Bible says that God rested on the seventh day, but in 2009, Meatbags picked up where God left off, and created Surrogates.

You should go see this movie!