The 6th Day story
The 6th Day is a 2000 American science fiction action film directed by Roger Spottiswoode and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tony Goldwyn, Michael Rapaport and Robert Duvall. Synopsis: In the film, a family man of the future is illegally cloned by accident as part of a vast conspiracy involving a shady billionaire businessman, and is thrust into a struggle to clear his name and protect his family from the conspirators who seek to keep the cloning a secret. The title refers to the Christian Genesis creation narrative, where God created mankind on the sixth day.
25 total · 2 choice · 7 major · 16 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| human cloning | choice | The story is set in a near future when human cloning is possible, but strictly forbidden by law. The story itself follows the family man Adam Gibson getting cloned by a nefarious corporation and its action packed aftermath. |
| human cloning in society | choice | The film confronts the viewer with the question of whether human cloning should be legal. In the film, anti-cloning activists thought it dangerous and possibly an abomination onto the Lord, while the cloning corporation Replacement Technologies tried to make the case for cloning. In the end, the Adam clone came to take a middle position on the issue. |
| a person and their clone | major | The Adam clone teamed up with the real article to free Adam's wife and daughter from the clutches of a nefarious corporation. |
| familial love | major | The viewer is shown just how much both the Adam clone and the real article loved Adam's wife and young daughter. |
| husband and wife | major | Central to the story were Adam and Natalie Gibson. Dr. Griffin Weir and his terminally ill clone wife Katherine. |
| playing God with nature | major | Much was made of the anti-cloning activists contention that human cloning (and animal cloning for that matter) was an abomination onto the Lord. |
| the quest for immortality | major | The CEO of Replacement Technologies Michael Drucker was engaged in nefarious research into human cloning because he wanted to conquer death; in particular his own. |
| unethical business practices | major | Replacement Technologies was secretly cloning people left, right and center in flagrant violation of the human cloning prohibiting "Sixth Day" laws. |
| what if I met my double | major | The Adam clone teamed up with the real article in order to rescue Adam's wife and daughter from the clutches of a ruthless billionaire CEO. |
| American football | minor | A star quarterback suffered a crippling injury on the field. |