The Island story
The Island is a 2005 American science fiction action thriller film directed and co-produced by Michael Bay. Synopsis: A man struggles to fit into the highly structured world in which he lives, isolated in a compound, and the series of events that unfold when he questions how truthful that world is.
20 total · 12 major · 8 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| a person and their clone | major | The wealthy automobile designer with cirrhotic hepatitis Tom Lincoln came into conflict with his healthy liver containing clone, Lincoln Six Echo. |
| conformism in society | major | The clones of the isolated compound in which the film is largely set were governed by a strict set of conformity inducing rules, such as everyone having to wear identical white jumpsuits. |
| conformist dystopia | major | The clones of the isolated compound in which the film is largely set were governed by a strict set of conformity inducing rules, such as everyone having to wear identical white jumpsuits. |
| existential risk to civilization | major | The residents of the isolated compound were led to believe that the outside world has become too contaminated to support life with the exception of a single island. |
| fabled land of goodness | major | The residents of the isolated compound were led to believe that the titular "Island" was the last place on the surface of the Earth capable of supporting life. |
| facing organized pursuit | major | Lincoln Six Echo and Jordan Two Delta were evading a manhunt for the latter half of the film. |
| having a preconception challenged | major | The clone Lincoln Six Echo escaped from the isolated compound where he'd spent his entire life after coming to question the stories he was indoctrinated with about the outside world having become too contaminated to support life with the exception of one single island. |
| human cloning | major | A revelation of the story is that the people living in the isolated compound were actually clones who'd been created to be harvested for their organs. |
| people bread for organ donation | major | The story is about a shady company that breeds clones for wealthy sponsors to be used for organ harvesting, among other purposes. |
| romantic love | major | Lincoln Six Echo and Jordan Two Delta fell in love. |