![]() ![]() ![]() Then she’s the jealous Elektral (counterpart to Oedipal it’s a word now) mother figure. Then she’s the crazy over-attached mother figure. First she’s the uncaring scientist who goes too far. Sarah Polley and Adrien Brody do great work, even though I thought, at first, that they were trying to make Elsa the unsympathetic terror, no matter the circumstances. That’s where things start to come off the rails a bit, at least in the lives of Elsa and Clive. Then Elsa puts it in their in-vitro set up, saying “we won’t bring it to term.” But the experiment grows very fast, in leaps and bounds, and soon it’s come to term, all on its own. But Elsa and Clive are scientists, dammit–and there’s so much more that can be done!Īnd so, Elsa and Clive do the work, saying they just want to see if it’s really possible. No more gene splicing shenanigans for these two–now it’s time to hunker down and synthesize the proteins that have such wonderful properties. The bosses tell them that they’re very proud, and they’ve all done great work, but that now it’s time to make some cash. When they announce their breakthrough to their big bosses, they also break the news: they’re ready for human splicing. ![]() Their plan is to use the chemicals these creatures create in their bodies to treat everything from degenerative eyesight to cancer. Through their work, they create two iterations of a completely new kind of chimeric life form from many animals with known medicinal traits. Synopsis: Two bioengineers named Elsa (Sarah Polley) and Clive ( Adrien Brody) are a small, independent research outfit working for a fairly large biotech firm, making crazy breakthroughs in the creation of hybridised artificial life and medicinal science. SPLICE 2 MOVIE MOVIEIt is not a “horror movie,” so much as it is a movie about horror, about ethics and responsibility, and about the things we become when we confront the Other, and it handles the complexity of these questions extremely well. It made me think, it made me uncomfortable with certain assumptions, and then it tore those assumptions asunder. Vincenzo Natali’s Splice was a great film. ![]()
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