Based on his latest script choices, it almost seems as if
Arnold Schwarzenegger were on the payroll of the catholic church and the
green party. Following the majestic flop of End of Days, Arnold is
trying to resurrect his action hero career with The Sixth Day. Too bad for
Ralph Nader that this movie (and Red Planet) didn't premiere before the
presidential election.
In a near future full of holographic advertisements, remote controlled
automobiles and clone-your-dead-pet services, cloning of humans is
banned due to some experiment mishaps in the past. Extreme religious
fanatics and ecoterrorists want to get rid of the leading corporation in
animal and vegetable cloning. The corporation is conducting illegal human
cloning. The owner, Drucker (Tony Goldwyn) and his leading geneticist
Dr. Graham Weir (Robert Duvall), are playing god and cloning everyone
around them, including their personal thugs, wives, football players and
of course, Arnold.
The 6th Day has great special effects this side of "The Matrix" and
proposes interesting moral questions about genetic manipulation, but fails
to give the right answers.
If you're rooting for the scientists you'll be terribly disappointed.
This is another of Hollywood's shots at reinforcing mysticism and
portraying scientists as money-driven scum.
Arnold's character is an ex-ecoterrorist himself. We hear him mention
how he used to prepare incediary mixtures in the "raiforest war". Just
as Adam Gibson (Scharzenegger) refuses to shave with a modern laser
razon and instead prefers to use an old fashion razor and get cut every
morning because "it makes him feel alive", environmentalism's (and
socialism's) goal is not the improvement of human life, but to damn humanity
to a paleolithic existence. Did you think that the fact that Earth day
and Lenin's birthday (April 22nd) fall on the same date was a
coincidence?
This movie gangs up on science like a pack of dogs on a mailman. This
trend in eco-filmmaking is only beginning, so don't be surprised when
the next eco-superhero comes to a theater near you.
For more on Ayn Rand's views on ecology and its connections to
socialism read "The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution".
