Research Paper On The Island

The Island- Final Paper Imagine a film with action, mystery, and suspense with high quality filming, a great story line, and phenomenal acting. The Island, directed by the great Michael Bay, has all these great qualities and much more to offer to the audience. The Island takes place in the future in a confined bunker somewhere in the deserts of the western U.S. Main characters Lincoln Six Echo (Tom Lincoln) and Jordan Two Delta (Sarah Jordan) are two clones(which they are unaware) thought to be saved from a nuclear blast and waiting to “win the lottery” also known as the “going to the Island”. In other words winning the lottery means that the original of the clone needs new body parts in order to keep living. Fortunately thanks to Tom’s consistent

Michael Bay’s film, The Island, has various formal and content-based aspects, such as photography, movement, mise en scène, and ideology, that would make this film a great

The scene sets up with Jordan and Lincoln who reach a telephone booth which turns out to be a video chat phone call. Upon calling the actual Sarah Jordan, a close up point of view shot that encloses the audience to see the young child talking to them and asks if she is his mommy(in regard to Jordan). Then, a switch to a close up of both Jordan (closer to the camera) and Lincoln (a bit behind Jordan) helps demonstrates not only the verbal conversation between the young child and themselves, but the emotional thoughts one can make throughout the putting oneself in the character’s perspective. The whole screen switches from a video chat of the child to a tightly framed side shot of Lincoln and Jordan with a background of the city skyscraper out of focus. As the viewer realizes that the actual Jordan is in a coma after a severe car crash, it brings up an ideological question about who deserves to live. The story itself begins to become more interesting since one begins to think about the possibility that human cloning and tissue/organ transplants could happen. The fact that all human possess empathy and sympathy play a key factor since the audience begins to foreshadow the future of the child…he has a father and if his original mother dies, then what. It rises a major question which is, who has the right to live or die. Is it the original since she has the financial