Qeiteri Armelle

Surrogates, film starring Bruce Willis, takes us to a world where almost everyone is living their lives through robots called surrogates.
The commercials advertise a world free from danger, because if your surrogate is hurt or incapacitated, nothing happens to the operator.
Just a few repairs and the surrogate is back to its normal, operating self.

The surrogates look ever so slightly like more humanistic versions of the shiny robots that
used to peddle Duracell batteries years ago.

Not everyone is high on using surrogates to do their living though.
Many humans have formed anti-machine tribes.
They have set up reservations in major cities offering machine-free living.
A man who is simply known as The Prophet (Ving Rhames) leads the robot-hating people.

Agent Greer (Bruce Willis) is working a case for the FBI.
Seems a few operators have died the exact moment their surrogate died.
This is unheard of, and causes alarm seeing that surrogates are a top-selling product
worldwide.

Surrogates raises some key questions, but ends up skirting around the tough answers.
In what is no doubt a comparison on people becoming more dependent on technology and
less dependent on themselves, what would happen if all of us could stay at home while
someone else – a robot perhaps – did all our work for us? Would this breed widespread
apathy, agoraphobia, and anxiety? Would we become so dependent on our surrogates, that we’d
forget how to feel and act for ourselves? Is this happening now with the invention of the
Internet and computers? We spend countless hours in front of screens typing in information,
no doubt getting lazier and lazier. Some interesting ideas and thoughts about modern society
are definitely present here.

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