The Idea behind Surrogates Is Tempting
June 5th 2009 08:44
This man is not a surrogate. His surrogate has hair.
Surrogates is based on a comic book series by Robert Venditti.
Surrogates is set in the future where people use robots that look like them to socialize, interact, and do intercourse with others. It's a good way to move around and travel outside the home without really going anywhere. The robot has senses that become the owner's, such that one will be able to see, hear, smell, and feel whatever the robot is seeing, hearing, smelling, and feeling. It's the ultimate avatar or action-figure for a massively multiplayer role playing game and the Surrogates world is the most massive of all!
The technological premise is similar to movies like Lawnmower Man, The Matrix series, and others where a virtual or alternate reality plays a big part in the plot. The idea of robot surrogates feeds on the fear people have of diseases and other environmental factors that can do harm in more ways than one. With diseases like AIDS and a host of mutated viruses out there, the idea of having surrogates to use outside of the house is inviting.
In the movie, Bruce Willis's robot surrogate has a good head of hair and kind of reminds us of his old character in the series Moonlighting. He is forced to go outside to solve the murders of others' surrogates. That's where the second thrill of the movie really begins, the first one, of course, being the thrill of using avatar robots. So, Willis's character is thrust in a world where people literally play games of life, but he himself gets played by someone who apparently goes beyond the rules and takes control of other people's surrogates.
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