The Complexity Of Life In Michael Bay's Film The Island

This quote describes the complexity of life itself, and accurately portrays the struggle Lincoln Six Echo and Jordan Two Delta face throughout Michael Bay’s film The Island. Everything in the lives of Lincoln, Jordan, and the others of their community is regulated and monitored. They are told of a catastrophe that leaves the world in shambles and completely uninhabitable, and that they are the people who are fortunate enough to be saved and protected. However, there is one place left in the outside world that has not been contaminated, the Island. People are selected ‘randomly’ to go to the Island, where they are promised a life in paradise. These are the “things known,” but these are not enough for Lincoln. He questions everything about his surroundings and discovers his previous perception of reality is nowhere near the truth. In actuality, he and the rest of the community are clones, grown in a lab and paid
Throughout the film, music heightens the emotions the viewer feels as s/he discovers the truth about the community with Lincoln and Jordan. The fear, the shock, and the horror are all tangible emotions felt with each new atrocity. Though some stunts are a bit far-fetched, the active storyline keeps the viewer engaged and wondering what fresh horrors the next twist will hold. This work has a clear connection to Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Both works exhibit the artificial production of humans, predisposed to the life for which they are designed, as well as the use of hypnopaedia to condition the residents of the communities in the way the will benefit their superiors. Additionally, the authorities in both works fear unorthodox thinking because, as shown in Michael Bay’s The Island, one unorthodox individual’s thoughts have the power to crumble the societies that they