What's interesting about this film is that almost all of the blurbs and synopses of it give it more plot than it actually has. Most of them are true in that they describe roughly what happens, but they're misrepresented in that they don't really show how little actually happens in this movie.
A guy named William is investigating fraudulent "papelles" when he meets a woman named Maria, who he falls in love with. This is bad because due to the futuristic society where clones can cause problems with genetic discrepancies, they shouldn't breed. Thus they aren't allowed to be together and the evil society hunts them down while they attempt to run.
It's basically a series of genre conceits, which is alright except it's loosely cut--more like stapled--together with a loose assortment of ideas and a really bad voice-over. Most importantly, it doesn't go anywhere. At times it seems like it wants to have some interesting ideas, but then it decides not to explore it, instead just going on and letting us assume that this story means something.
I only found two things interesting with it: the abuses of authority William has when he has the virus and the potential Oedipal nature of his relationship with Maria. Neither were explored because it seems the writer didn't care. All we know is that these two people are apparently in love (despite next to no chemistry) and that somehow it needs to be illegal to warn about a society set too strictly. The only theme is the importance of living up to risks, but even that seems to be underdeveloped... nothing really goes anywhere here.
To be perfectly honest, it seems almost as if this movie goes on a tight budget until the money runs out... and then the filmmakers dropped everything and cut it together using serrated scissors in a dark room. It looks like everyone involved WANTS to really explore this brave new world, but nobody ultimately had the resources. However, it's practically pointless to try to think about what this film could have been, considering it pretty much isn't anything anyway.
--PolarisDiB
A guy named William is investigating fraudulent "papelles" when he meets a woman named Maria, who he falls in love with. This is bad because due to the futuristic society where clones can cause problems with genetic discrepancies, they shouldn't breed. Thus they aren't allowed to be together and the evil society hunts them down while they attempt to run.
It's basically a series of genre conceits, which is alright except it's loosely cut--more like stapled--together with a loose assortment of ideas and a really bad voice-over. Most importantly, it doesn't go anywhere. At times it seems like it wants to have some interesting ideas, but then it decides not to explore it, instead just going on and letting us assume that this story means something.
I only found two things interesting with it: the abuses of authority William has when he has the virus and the potential Oedipal nature of his relationship with Maria. Neither were explored because it seems the writer didn't care. All we know is that these two people are apparently in love (despite next to no chemistry) and that somehow it needs to be illegal to warn about a society set too strictly. The only theme is the importance of living up to risks, but even that seems to be underdeveloped... nothing really goes anywhere here.
To be perfectly honest, it seems almost as if this movie goes on a tight budget until the money runs out... and then the filmmakers dropped everything and cut it together using serrated scissors in a dark room. It looks like everyone involved WANTS to really explore this brave new world, but nobody ultimately had the resources. However, it's practically pointless to try to think about what this film could have been, considering it pretty much isn't anything anyway.
--PolarisDiB