Resonance Design

everything and nothing that involves notions of a design and thinking pattern that Rob van Kranenburg and me called "Resonance Design" (or Extelligence Design, your choice)

Wednesday, October 05, 2005

The Final Cut


A rather underestimated movie, "The Final Cut" from Omar Raim gives a detailed and sophisticated look into a world where a "ZOE" implant exists, recording everything, audio and visual, that you see and hear. Furthermore, this footage is then cut and reedited in an about 2hrs film version of your life called the rememorial which is watched during your funeral.
The movie covers, in a very detailed way, the social and moral implications of such a technology affecting society. There are demonstrators in front of a rememorial event, metallic enhanced tatoos and the attached fashion youth culture involving metallic tattoo paint that can block the audio and video signal or both, commercial closure over the "ZOE" implant company's employees, a moral and ethical set of rules for the "cutters", which are the people who reedit the footage to never have implants themselves, the matter of affording the technology, the general notion of how we remember things differently than they were happening and if we should be able to not forget anything and crime. It also includes the malfunction of the technology and it's effects, here in the form of malfunctioning implants recording daydreaming images as if they were reality.
Not a woah! look what we can do with science movie like Minority Report, but a dense documentation of the focussing on individual's scenarios. Very watchable!
And I so gotta have one of Robin Williams' wood-encased labtops.