The film addresses the innate yearning to cheat death and portrays such desire in a way that leaves the viewer in a pensive state. By extrapolating a current technological advancement, such as stem cell research and three-dimensional organic tissue printing, Michael Bay warns of us the dangers of stripping a human life of its sanctity in this clearly dystopian work of fiction. The Island serves as a warning to humans, showing how slippery of slope greed can be. One may believe that inequality and oppression of this magnitude are not feasible in today's world; however, one must simply look back only a couple centuries to fully grasp what human overcome by greed are capable
The film addresses the innate yearning to cheat death and portrays such desire in a way that leaves the viewer in a pensive state. By extrapolating a current technological advancement, such as stem cell research and three-dimensional organic tissue printing, Michael Bay warns of us the dangers of stripping a human life of its sanctity in this clearly dystopian work of fiction. The Island serves as a warning to humans, showing how slippery of slope greed can be. One may believe that inequality and oppression of this magnitude are not feasible in today's world; however, one must simply look back only a couple centuries to fully grasp what human overcome by greed are capable