Wew! ‘Twas a long weekend… Back to work tomorrow. I’m unable to finish my book. I read two chapters yesterday and another two chapters today. Pretty bad since I did nothing these two days, suppose to be just to read.
I attended mass yesterday night, and we have a visiting priest. He’s very dark and small (short), most of all he talks very slow. Good thing I was seated near the front row. Otherwise I’ll fall sleep in the church, specially I was alone – no one will wake me up. Gospel is all about perseverance and true belief in God – when Simon (Peter) followed Jesus after the “fishing” incident.
After reading my 2 chapters this morning – my mind start wandering and I'm unable to focus again to what I’m reading. I go outside of my room to have some walk and I saw a VCD titled “The 6th Day” lying near the computer in our living room. I tried to ignore it and go back to the new chapter I’m reading – dammit, it just added to the distraction in my focus.
As you guess, I’m an action and sci-fi movie fan – so immediately I put that VCD to Agila (my notebook) plugged my Bose speaker – blast! My room turned to a Movie Theater!
The film's premise is heavily based in TRUE science fiction; that is, fiction having its basis in scientific truth, using projections of the future to fully examine some aspect of our society. Sorry to go into such an elaborate definition, but I believe a lot of stuff gets swept into the category of science fiction simply because it has a robot, or takes place in outer space. But I digress. This fictional reality here deals with cloning. In the film, which takes place in the "near future," cloning is an every-day practice, but only with pets and animals. Cloning people has been outlawed, as the original human cloning project went horribly wrong.
With this premise, the film is wide open to make many social observations, and does so very well, on occasion. Much of the legalities concerning cloning, as well as the ethical concerns, are discussed and examined by the characters. Even though the technology exists in the future, it is not widely accepted.
Okay, I’m getting long and deeper here; I can find lots of words to say about that film specially I have real interest in this subject – CLONING. You heard about GNOME project?
To sum it up, this film is more than as an action or sci-fi film – it is a reality of our future – sooner than you expected.
Well, I guess that’s it for today. This posting kinda long now. I hope you still reading up to here.
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