"Humans would do anything to survive"
- Macoy and Lincoln 6 Echo
The Beginning
The Island(2005) was directed Michael Bay by stars Lincoln 6 Echo (Ewan McGregor) and Jordan 2 Delta (Scarlett Johansson), it is a very good movie that is about clones made to think the world had ended but are actually Insurance Policies for a longer life, and one day someone had questioned why they were so 'special'.
The film begins with Lincoln 6 Echo having a nightmare about a boat named Renovatio and being drowned and the words 'You are Special' and 'You want to go to the Island' repeating in his mind. We then follow his day through the Institution, a place where the survivors from a word wide contamination go to, Lincoln 6 Echo and his friend, Jordan 2 Delta are part of these people. In the Institution, there is a system they call 'The Lottery' that randomly selects people to go to the Island - the last livable sanctuary left on Earth after the contamination - but Lincoln 6 Echo is the only one who is not interested in going to the Island instead he questions and he is curious on the ways of the Institution, a fact which leads him and his friend to the outside world to discover the reality of what the Institution really is, a breeding place for clones with Merrick as God.
The Middle
The plot of The Island was very good, I loved the set design, the music, and the entire concept of it.
The acting was well played, I found Jordan 2 Delta's constant need to scream a bit childish though not misplaced, Merrick's (Sean Bean) I-am-God act was exceptional though he wasn't showed much in the movie, Macoy's (Steve Buscemi) silliness - just before he died - gave a light feeling before the heavy action scenes occured and overall, everyone did a fantastic job in the film. I would have liked to know more of Albert (Djimon Hounsou) though.
The set design was superb, the Institution wasn't shown much but I liked the way it was build and made with the towering towers and overly white facilities as compared with it's black exterior; the city of Los Angeles was also nicely made mixing futuristic with modern styles made it look like a place that was advancing but not completely there yet, a good way to potray 2019; the dessert settings were also good, like a place that was forgotten to be advanced like in LA but makes the perfect spot to build a place like the Institution, inconspicuous. I would have liked to see more of the Institution but it's also fine just the way it already is; though I do have a problem with how the Institution is directly under it's real office yet can be underneath a dessert at the same time.
The action scenes were good, okay on the effects yet not too overlay confusing and flashy when it comes to camera movement and shot angles so it wasn't hard too hard on the eyes. The romantic scenes between Lincoln 6 Echo and Jordan 2 Delta were also very endearing yet not too explicit, I also liked the fact that they found the Island in each other. The rising action was alright, not too rushed and not too slow either, it was nicely controlled and crafted up to the end.
The End
There were many symbolisms and metaphors in the Island, even the title itself is a metaphor and the film showed a few symbolisms of religion like with Merrick the God and Lincoln 6 Echo the Saviour. An example of a symbolism within the film was the bug that Lincoln 6 Echo found in Sector 6 which represented him who was trapped in the Institution, the bug's fluttering wings being Lincoln 6 Echo's unfailing curiousity, and like the bug, he will escape as well. Next is the glass pyramid on Merrick's desk which represented the all seeing eye and Merrick's God Complex as well as his power. There is also the name of the boat in Lincoln 6 Echo's dream, the same boat that his original owns in the outside world, Renovatio, latin for Rebirth which foreshadowed Lincoln 6 Echo's rebirth as Tom Lincoln; added to that was the fact that the dream that Lincoln 6 Echo was having was about him becoming Tom Lincoln but the Institution was dragging him down to the waters separating him and Jordan 2 Delta from each other. Another metaphor is Lincoln 6 Echo's desire to save the others in the Institution like a Saviour trying to rescue his people from oppression of the evil Lord whose power he had so overly abused. Finally, the Island - the place the clones sought after so much - was most probably representating the hapiness and freedom out of the Institution but this was also something that Lincoln 6 Echo and Jordan 2 Delta countered since the Island could not only be a place but it can also be a person or an event, or anything at all. Something that makes you feel alive.
Sincerely,
Zacharias Walker
(Lily) (Will)
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