{"id":710,"date":"2009-05-08T17:51:21","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T00:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/1morefilmblog\/?p=710"},"modified":"2014-08-21T21:23:46","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T02:23:46","slug":"the-island-bay-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/1morefilmblog\/the-island-bay-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"The Island (Bay, 2005)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

The movie that put the \"allephory\" in \"allephorical.\"<\/a>
The movie that put the \u201callephory\u201d in \u201callephorical.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

Plot:<\/p>\n

A man living in a utopian community discovers the sinister secret behind his existence. Rated PG-13 for instense action violence, brief sexuality, and language. WARNING. MAJOR PLOT SPOILERS IN THIS REVIEW<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Reviewer Comments:<\/h2>\n

Ken\u2019s Viewing Blog:<\/p>\n

Opening credits\u2014hmmm, Michael Clarke Duncan and Djimon Hounsou both. I wonder which will play the sensitive black man that provides the social conscience of the movie? I guess Morgan Freeman was busy, what with being in every other movie this summer and all.<\/p>\n

Hey, I thought I was watching The Island<\/em>. Is this the end of The Hours<\/em> or Titanic<\/em>?<\/p>\n

I wonder if McGregor picked this role for its lack of affect after having to do three Star Wars<\/em> movies.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s Scarlett with two \u201cT\u201ds. She looks nice in a white jumpsuit. Not like Uma in a yellow jumpsuit, though.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s people! Soylent Lines is people!!<\/p>\n

X-Box product placement.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s Michael Clarke\u2026guess Hounsou gets to be the social conscience.<\/p>\n

McGregor finds a bug. What is this, Silence of the Lambs<\/em>? Thank goodness it wasn\u2019t a bat or this movie would get really weird.<\/p>\n

McGregor escapes. Isn\u2019t it weird when movies have huge technological advances such as cloning but leave unlocked ducts to multi-billion dollar labs all over the place?<\/p>\n

Duncan again, you sort of knew he would be back.<\/p>\n

Lots of womb-like images. So, it\u2019s an abortion allegory, huh? The conservatives will love it. Wait, they all have wrist tattoos, so it\u2019s an Aushwitz metaphor, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

They both escape. Running across the Arizona landscape. Where the heck are Elliot Gould and Telly Savalas in the crop duster?<\/p>\n

They find Buscemi. Can any summer testosterone film be complete without a little gratuitous gay-bashing humor? Not that any gays would come to this movie, would they? Why on earth would a gay person be interested in a movie with three unhandsome actors like Ewan McGregor, Djimon Hounsou, and Sean Bean?<\/p>\n

Hounsou hired to track them down. I wonder if his blackness is the give away that he may have moral reservations later on? I wonder if he will get to pound on the back of a truck and yell, \u201cGo, go, go!\u201d<\/p>\n

MSNBC product placement.<\/p>\n

Duncan is a football player, which makes me wonder, if he were a Redskin (missed product placement), would lawmakers care if his career were extended through illegal means? Would I?<\/p>\n

Scarlett sees her \u201cdaughter\u201d on the phone. Wouldn\u2019t it be cool if the actress who had her cloned doesn\u2019t make it so that Scarlett could be an instant mom?<\/p>\n

Lots of running around, including the trailer shot.<\/p>\n

McGregor acts with himself. Is pretending to see yourself in the blue screen easier or harder than pretending to see Jar Jar Binks?<\/p>\n

Nokia product placement.<\/p>\n

The entire LA SWAT team shows up for a lost credit card hit? What sort of fantasy world is this?<\/p>\n

Scarlett\u2019s (two \u201ct\u201ds) lipstick seems to have held up really well, but since this is the only implausibility of the film thus far, I\u2019m willing to overlook it.<\/p>\n

Cadillac product placement.<\/p>\n

Now this is pod racing!<\/p>\n

Honsou kills the wrong McGregor. Nobody looks at his wrist to see if there is a tattoo..<\/p>\n

We are free and clear, but we have to go back and liberate those born into slavery, kind of like Iraq. So it\u2019s a war metaphor? But before we save the world, let\u2019s discover heavy petting (but not sex, since it\u2019s a PG-13 movie).<\/p>\n

Honsou begins to have moral reservations (ain\u2019t that a shock?).<\/p>\n

CNN product placement (president has a clone, huh? Guess the conservatives won\u2019t like it so much).<\/p>\n

Lots of Lottery winners going to the gas chambers. Sorta reminds me of Schindler\u2019s List<\/em>, only a bit more accessible.<\/p>\n

Lots of adult fetuses get aborted. (I can just feel the conservatives getting more schizophrenic by the second.)<\/p>\n

Sean Bean and McGregor get tied together through the barbs. We are all interconnected. It\u2019s allegorical. It\u2019s metaphorical. It\u2019s allephorical.<\/p>\n

The lottery winners escape the gas chamber, but the fetuses get destroyed. Does this mean abortion is worse than the holocaust? (Yet another U-turn for the neocons.)<\/p>\n

Lots of people in white PUMA jumpsuits walking across a mountain. Hmm. How did I know this was coming?<\/p>\n

PUMA product placement.<\/p>\n

Hounsou smiles at Scarlett (two \u201ct\u201ds); clearly helping these clones to not get aborted has healed the scars of African genocide. Also, this is a powerful warning that although the film is allephorical, such things could really happen if liberal stem-cell manipulators like John Kerry get elected.<\/p>\n

I wonder if Scarlett and Ewan will go back and adopt the little girl from the phone? What, no? Guess I have a reason to buy the DVD for the deleted scenes.<\/p>\n

Roll credits.<\/p>\n

My Grade: B-<\/h2>\n

This post originally appeared at Viewpoint<\/em> and another message board. I re-post it here just to keep my claiming for coining the term \u201callephorical\u201d alive.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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