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The Island Movie Review

Starring: Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansen
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Review Summary
The movie takes place in a advanced location where people are being cloned for body parts, who are lied to and told that they were saved from a virus that swept across the plant. Ewan McGregor plays one of the clones. He has enormous facial warts.
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Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 50%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzle - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%




**Fantasy or Science Fiction?** - science fiction story
Repressive Society Yes
Repression: - controls your mind - controls your sex - kills without good reason
Clones/duplicates? - good clones/duplicates
Clones/Duplicates? Yes
Who's being repressed/enslaved? - humans are slaves

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status: - engineer
Age: - 20's-30's
Hair color? - brunette (Brown)
Hair type - (man) crewcut/very short
Body type - average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality - English/British
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings

Secondary Main Character
Identity: - Female
Hair style - (woman) medium/shoulderlgn, straight
Body type - average (female)
How much in movie? - 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)

Main Adversary
Identity: - an organization
Age: - 40's-50's
Profession/status: - scientist
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - 40%
Hair color - brunette (Brown)
Body type - average (man)
Ethnicity - White

Setting
Desert? Yes
Big cities? Yes
Misc settings - prison - mental hospital
Kind of city - Beautiful sparkling advanced city

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths
Tone of movie - depressed/sad
Any profanity? - Occasional swearing
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