On Sunday I saw The Island. Obviously the effects were amazing. But the acting wasn't very good. And the plot was full of more holes than a nice Swiss cheese. That being said, I appreciated the sci-fi portion of the flick.
The interesting thing to me was who made this movie. Michael Bay, the director of Armageddon and Pear Harbor, isn't the first guy I would think of to direct a movie about genocide. And believe me, this movie was about genocide. Many of the characters are at pains to tell us how the people being harvested for body parts aren't human but are 'product'. And at one point a bunch of 'product' is loaded into an incinerator.
I mean, I appreciate it. The more that we can do to get people thinking about genocide the better. Two recent news items have shocked me. The first was Fox News anchor who said, "people like us, non-arabs...". And then there was the horrible shooting in the London subway of some innocent kid who was just freaked about being chased by cops, was shot to death, with eight shots. There doesn't seem to be any outrage about that at all. Which sickens me. This country needs to spend some time thinking about parallels with the Holocaust in what's happening right now.
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