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Surrogates is a sci-fi action Movie

  Tue, Oct 06 2009, 16:45

Surrogates is a workmanlike sci-fi action film with few pretenses, a movie that hints at much but grapples with little. Set in the VERY near future, it's about the ways technology disconnects us from reality and humanity, about the obsession with physical perfection, the death of privacy, corporatization and, not really a stretch, the U.S. techno-war against radical primitivism. That's a lot to cull from the Robert Venditti/Brett Weldele comic book, which was a much more succinct commentary on our cell-phone/Facebook/avatar lives, with the idea that this tech fixation is going to kill us. In the Surrogates future, everybody who's anybody has bought a better version of themselves -- sleek, sexy robots with TV anchor- Barbie hair and Disney Channel skin. These alternates work, flirt and play in our place while we lie, in our pajamas, in a "stim" chair, watching and sensing everything our younger, cooler and perfect selves do. People are free to be as impulsive... http://allcurrenthotnews.com/?p=1118

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