Review by Mr. OMY

We are in the presence of a good sci-fi movies, old style that prevail are not lavish special effects and even excessive action scenes. Someone will certainly disappointed at this but I think what we should strike the viewer is instead the message of social protest that is inherent in this film. An accurate reflection of what should be, and increasingly are pre-loaded, the ethical boundaries of science. The film offers a vision of a population, in the near future, subjugated by the media, big corporations in which they profess the cult of fear of the crime (see the parallel with excessive anxiety that is perpetrated against citizens through 'instrumental use of terrorism by the information in the present), and excessive fear of inadequacy aesthetic that instills in people, not afraid to strike the right aesthetic. A society that lives in fear, more controllable economic powers, which reduces people to the larvae locked up in the apartment and that makes them act in replacement of the machines (substitutes) in the real world outside that is no more. Individuals without spontaneous social relations even among the same family, which can be compared in some ways to what is happening today through the excessive use of chat in which the computer creates the psychological barrier which in the film is represented by a surrogate. A projection of future social chilling to say the least which I hope we'll never get where it's sad to see that the only people who still remain anchored to the old values of a community and then refuse to own the "surrogates" are forced to live in ghetto-like beasts. I recognize that the film does not have an elaborate script and maybe the end can be quite obvious, but one can not remain indifferent in any case against a film that tries to make her way to reflect our consciences by not only function as that special effects.