Surrogates Movie Blurb by Shale September 25, 2009 This was a must-see movie for me, being into Sci-fi as I am. There were some misgivings about the movie because it was not prescreened for reviewers, which means they are trying to avoid bad press on opening week. Today when I checked Rottentomatoes looking for pix, only 40% of reviewers gave it a fresh rating. Poster The story takes place in the near future and we get a rundown on opening credits of the previous 14 years as our science develops evermore interactive robotics and our culture, already secluded in our cyberworld existence, makes the jump from avatars on a monitor to actual interactive surrogates in RealWorld, controlled by the brains of a "meat sack" operator at home. This surrogate society has almost rid the industrialized world of crime as people can vicariously live out their lives and the surrogates can even be bumped off with no ill effects to the operator. That is until two surrogates are destroyed and it is found that their operators were killed at home (like the feedback deaths in Matrix). This was not supposed to happen with all the safety protocols so it is suspected by FBI Agent Greer (Bruce Willis) to be murder. He and his partner, Agent Peters (Radha Mitchell) start investigating. Peters' and Greer's Surrogates Work the Case As you would expect there is a minority of people who are against surrogates and have forced the government to let them live in machine-free reservations. This is a likely place for our murderer to hide out and Greer soon suspects subterfuge from high placed people with money. There is, of course lots of action scenes with car and helicopter crashes. Greer is also having marital problems because his wife is quite happy being a Stepford wife and he longs to be with the real old lady holed up in her bedroom. I liked the way they made Willis up as his surrogate, with a plasticized, no wrinkle skin and horrible blond hair. Makes our old bald, rough-hewn Willis that much more handsome as the real man. You can also read into this story all the reference to our online and virtual reality world of today. It reminds us that we don't know who is actually on the other keyboard on MySpace, FaceBook or any of the social networks. The luscious babe in those pix from anywhere with whom you are having the candid sexy dialogue could actually be a big, hairy, unbathed sweaty guy in his dirty underwear. Likewise surries don't reveal the age or gender of their meat-sack operators. I can see the problems with this movie - it ain't Blade Runner for one - but it was a good sci-fi tale and a murder mystery (taken from a comic book series). I thought it was good entertainment for an hour and a half and enjoyed it.
this sounds like a very good story and it seems like it would transfer well from written story to film.
For Surrogates release on DVD and blu-ray, they've made an online game where you can make your perfect woman at http://www.surro-date.com Enter your preferences for eye and hair colour along with your interests and it will generate your Surrodate. All of which are fit. Definitely worth it for the eye candy. Someone else got this though!
