Sunday, October 17, 2004

The Final Cut

The Final Cut is a small but excellent science fiction movie.
It's set in a world in which people can buy this very expensive Zoe Chips for their unborn kids, little brain implants that will record all that person's life from the moment their born until they die.

It stars Robin Williams as a cutter, someone that edits these memories from a person and uses them to create little movies called 'Rememories' which are showed at the person's wake so everybody can see how good that person was and remember them that way.
Of course, there's all those dark moments too, which are deleted by the cutter forever.
The memories are chosen by the person's family and friends, and the cutter can only include those in the Rememory.
The cutters have codes, which doesn't allow them to share the information they delete, nor can they sell them, and personally, a cutter can't have the implant himself, as that would reveal, because is in his memories, all the other people's memories he worked on.

Robin Williams is very good, in a portrayal in the style of One Hour Photo and Insomnia, as a cutter that finds while working on a rememory of one of the executives of the company created the Zoe technology, a childhood friend that brings him hunting memories of the past, so now he needs to find what really happened.
Jim Caviezel is a retired cutter, now the leader of the organization that is against the Zoe technology, and is trying to get that same rememory that Williams is working on, as it will show what kind of person that man really is, and it will destroy the company.
Mira Sorvino is Williams' love interest. A useless character that has nothing to do and it's only there cause they needed a woman in the movie what's better than to use an Oscar winner that hasn't done anything worthy since then.

The movie has this great effect when showing the memories, specially how it's all shown through the person's eyes, so the images have this colored layer according to the person's eye color.
Very recomended little movie that could've been huge if Steven Spielberg would've done it (instead of Minority Report for example), but Director Omar Naim used what he got and created a top class sci-fi story.