Movie Review of 2009’s Surrogates With Bruce Willis
Tele-robotic warfare currently exists, we call these war fighting devices “unmanned vehicles” and perhaps the most interesting to date are the UAVs used by the United States Military. Tele-robotic surgery operations are now being used also by surgeons working on live patients half a world away. These and many more applications of tele-robotics will all come online well into the future. So, what will the year 2054 be like?
Ah, great you should ask, as I just saw one of the best movies of the year which makes reference to a possible future using all this technology and several subsequent generations of advanced IT networks, robotics, android AI machines, and it’s all taken to a whole other level of scalability, where the living room gaming system becomes your real life. Not just for some, for everyone – worldwide.
The new technology is billed as the safest way to run a society and protect the citizens, and if a surrogate android is in a terrible accident, no problem, the human behind the controls is unharmed, while the robotic unit is replaced and repaired.
2009 Film “Surrogates” starring Bruce Willis and Radha Mitchell, along with Rosamund Pike, James Cromwell, Ving Rhames, and Boris Kodjoe.
Yes, the year is 2054 and everything we know about the real world has changed, where people live through their surrogate robotic androids, each one connected through a telerobotic network. These robots experience our daily lives and so too do we, but only through them.
According to WikiPedia “Surrogates” was originally a comic book series by Robert Venditti and in 2009 it was made into a full feature movie.
It is my contention that this is indeed the best Science Fiction Movie of 2009, and it would stand up against any movie in this genre of the last decade. However, it appears many movie critics have not given the movie the same high grade as I would. Why is this I ask? Well, I believe it is because folks have missed the point in the movie, and not allowed themselves to consider the philosophical argument that it puts forth.
After all, this is more than just a science fiction flick, much the same way that Matrix was much more than just an action movie. I’d recommend anyone who is into robotics, IT, computer centric networks, or military tech go see this movie, as well as anyone with an intellectual mind willing to do some stretching exercises on such an interesting and probable future. Please consider all this.
Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank. Lance Winslow believes movies and science fiction venues to make you think.
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