elfgrove | Splice

Okay. So I had 2 free tickets for a special preview screening of Splice tonight. With the director present for live Q&A after the film. (Which was an incredibly cool opportunity.)

The short of it. Spoiler free.

The movie was good. It was thought-provoking. The special effects were excellent. The story flowed pretty well. The themes. Oh god, I could talk about the ethics and the science and the gender role issues in this film for hours upon hours.

Splice is a modern day adaptation of Frankenstein. And it is just as disturbing and thoughtful as Frankenstein is meant to be.
It is good, and I advise seeing it.

I'm glad I got to have director Q&A after the film, because it added knowing the intent and hearing how the audience received the movie.

A note of warning.
This movie is disturbing. It earns its R rating in a couple of ways and I am so freaking disturbed right now.
But I think it was so worth seeing.

(Spoiler-ific review will be written when I get around to reviewing the last 3 movies I've seen.)

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Sounds awesome. I'm glad it's not just another scifi-for-the-sake-of-shiny-effects movie. I'll have to gather some of the other GTAs to watch it, hopefully without too much need for MST on the science parts. But a modern-day/modern-science Frankenstein, complete with the intended themes of questionable scientific ethics? Yes please.

To be honest, "questionable scientific ethics" isn't the theme. It's the plot. Gender roles is one of the themes.

Ah. Well, that too then. In that case I'm thankful that the trailers don't display every important detail.

On second thought: Yes it is. Or it's at least A theme addressed in the movie. It's also part of the plot, but that also adds in "what happens when science goes HORRIBLY WRONG".

Being someone with a first-hand view of what scientific ethics apply to, it's certainly what I'd consider a major theme from the clips I've seen so far.

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