Surrogates revision map


Opening sequence

Surrogate free zones

'The Prophet' as an antagonist to the idea

"you have been sold a lie"

Conflict established

(invasion of being human)

Surrogates as part of the community 'daily life'

Solved society's problems

Voice over

Narrative device

Dramatic use of non-diegetic sound

Ideas about God and humanity

Invasion of the 'inhuman'

Surrogates = hope and perfection

Humans who are perfect are not really

human?

Big questions right at the start

Benefits of science

Style

Documentary

Montage sequence

Condensed time

News footage

Conflict

Narrative

Themes

hyperreality (dark and gloomy but with a comic book edge to it)

Leitmotif

as mystery/drama progresses

signifies something is happening


opening continued

Bombarded with sci-fi imagery

Iconography

Metallic titleSet of

expectations

surrogates

look plasticold fashioned car

social class

opera

chauffeur

wealth

dark city

hedonistic lifestyle

sex and music

nightclub mannequin-like

stiff dance moves

murder

"Get lost Meatbag!"

sense of an underclass

derogatory word

disequilibrium

hyrbridity

crime/thriller


Other ideas

Identitywe choose our own (technological determinism), facebook etccan be who you want to betwo halves of a person

mise-en-scenesetting - artificial world, plasticTom's apartments, child's bedroom,isn't empty of things but is empty of life

FuturisticVSI building, inhumane corporation"Do what you want, be what you want..."Adverts for latest modelsBlue/silver colour palette Similar to iRobot amongst other filmsConveyor beltsfactory production line

Comparison with Westworldsee parts of robotshumans fight for control"fail safes always kick in"engineering room similarity to the robot hospital


Binary Oppositions

HumansMan

Law and orderDystopia

RealModernity

ControlFeelings/Emotion

MachinesWifeLawlessnessUtopiaFantasyBack to basicsLack of controlInhumanity

Conflict set up through in terms of opposites

Vs.

Plot points

Find the override device(questions - where is it? who has it? mystery codes)Peters' overrideProphet as a robotTom kills Andrew Stone

EndingRace against timecircular narrative back to a news report"We're on our on"

Resolutionfinal moral question for Tomabort the surrogates?a win for humanity?BEV of Maggie's surrogateCU of face - broken shellcut to real Maggie (broken shell in her room)

New equilibriumCamera moving amongst surrogates on the streetslow soft music - poignantMaggie and Tom reunited

NARRATIVE


Key scenes

Chase sceneHelicoptercross cutting between real and surrogate Tomfast paced editing and dynamic cameraworkaction music and typical 'set-piece' from an action movieFeats of strengthBruce Wilis fulfilling our expectations

Maggie's salonRobot skeletons are bright coloured and plastic lookingImages of perfection all aroundbright mise-en-scene, proliferation of pink"This is who I am now"Confrontation between Maggies and TomShe shuts herself down so she can't be reachedPoignant moment - she won't let him closeCut to the real Maggie surrounded by pills

Tom first goes out without a surrogateweakanxiousfeels things for the first time

WastelandSacrifice of modern pleasure to reconnect with themselves"This is the human condition"Prophet's voice over the images of more basic lifestyleBurning of Strickland

Dystopian landcsapehuman only zonesigns - 'no machines allowed'BEW - wastelandpoverty but real lifefarming, horse and carriage"inside these walls we understand the truth"

Maggie's partykenetic camerawork when Tom beats up other manHe wants his real life backfrenetic musicemotional scene - trying to reach outhe is real and frail with emotionsSee real Maggie for the first timeshe is physically frail, weak and haggard


The Prophet(Ving Rhames)Dreadlocks, booming voice, actually a surrogate of Cantor's

Dr. Lionel Canter(James Cromwell)was CEO of VSIcreated the surrogatesfather of Jared.Uses same surrogates as his son.

Tom Greer(Bruce Willis)Surrogate looks younger with hairReal Tom is older and balder with a beardWants to live without reliance on a surrogateGrieving for dead childWants to reconnect with real wife

Maggie Greer(Rosamund Pike)Reliant on her surrogatefeels life is better nowdistant from TomHeavily self-medicating

Jennifer Peters(Radha Mitchell)A cop like Tom, intelligent, attractive, sympathitc to Tom

Miles StricklandAndrew StoneBobby (FBI, no surrogate, can disconnect others from their surrogates)

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