Why?

“I wish that there was more.”  This is what Lincoln says when he is being evaluated for unusual behavior.  He is frustrated by the lack of stimulus, the lack of knowledge, the lack of fulfillment in his life.  He has become curious about the outside world and restless in the one he has called home for so long.

Isn’t this a statement that has been repeated time and again ever since we began this course?  We as the readers look at these “Utopias” and say to ourselves, “I wish there was more.”  And don’t the protagonists in the Utopian literature we have been reading say the same thing?  Utopia isn’t fulfilling.  It isn’t real.  It isn’t life.

In The Island, it’s plain to see that the agnates or clones are unhappy.  Day after day, their meals are dictated, their proximity is monitored, and their individuality is essentially snuffed out completely.  The only thing that is keeping these “humans” alive and (theoretically) away from a rebellion is the promise of the island.

Lincoln challenges that system though.  Its remarkable how one man with inside knowledge can cause the collapse of an entire society, a system that has been years in the making.  All it took was one man to ask the simple question: why?

On a completely unrelated note, I personally thought that the movie was…meh.  The beginning was really interesting until I figured out what was going on.  The concept and the idea of the movie was good, but the execution was not so good.  By the time the movie ended, I was so fed up with intense action sequences, you have no idea.  It seemed to me that Michael Bay just added the action to see how long he could make the movie.