Are there people truly important enough that they should be allowed to live forever? Does the answer change if there is a great cost to extending that life?
These are the main questions asked in Tarsem Singh's latest film, Self/Less. As interesting as they may be, they aren't answered all that well. Instead, things devolve into middling action sequences rather than exploring the philosophical questions at the movie's core.
In Self/Less, as explained to Ben Kingsley's Donald Trump-esque real estate mogul, there is a secretive process, called "shedding," created by Professor Albright (Matthew Goode), that can transfer people's consciousness out of their body and into a new one which Albright has been able to make in a lab. Albright offers this procedure to Kingsley's character, Damian, because Albright believes that the world would be a lesser place without Damian, that he is one of the planet's "greatest minds."
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These are the main questions asked in Tarsem Singh's latest film, Self/Less. As interesting as they may be, they aren't answered all that well. Instead, things devolve into middling action sequences rather than exploring the philosophical questions at the movie's core.
In Self/Less, as explained to Ben Kingsley's Donald Trump-esque real estate mogul, there is a secretive process, called "shedding," created by Professor Albright (Matthew Goode), that can transfer people's consciousness out of their body and into a new one which Albright has been able to make in a lab. Albright offers this procedure to Kingsley's character, Damian, because Albright believes that the world would be a lesser place without Damian, that he is one of the planet's "greatest minds."
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