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* AnAesop: A rather {{Anvilicious}} one in the film about how we should all get up off our collective duff and interact with people eyeball-to-eyeball.
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* AnAesop: AntiEscapismAesop: A rather {{Anvilicious}} one in the film about how we should all get up off our collective duff and interact with people eyeball-to-eyeball.
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* TheExtremistWasRight: This seems implied of [[spoiler: Canter]].
* {{Technophobia}}: There are "dread reservations" which consist of communities that strongly oppose the use of surrogate robots, which are use by the vast majority of the world's population to live their daily lives risk free, which they consider them abominations and will attack surrogates if they come into their communities.
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* TheExtremistWasRight: This seems implied of [[spoiler: Canter]].
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* SparedByTheAdaptation: At the end of the original comic [[spoiler:Maggie Greer]] committed suicide after the Surrogates were all shut down. In the movie [[spoiler:she and her husband]] instead just face each other physically for the first time in years.
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* CallARabbitASmeerp SettingUpdate: the comic book was set in 2054 [[{{Atlanta}} "Central Georgia Metropolis"]], while the movie is set in 2017 UsefulNotes/{{Boston}}.
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* CallARabbitASmeerp SettingUpdate: the comic book was set in 2054 [[{{Atlanta}} [[UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}} "Central Georgia Metropolis"]], while the movie is set in 2017 UsefulNotes/{{Boston}}.
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* BigApplesauce: Averted. The film was shot in Boston. the comic was set in Central Georgia Metropolis.
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* {{Homage}}: Oh boy. ''Literature/SnowCrash'', ''Film/BladeRunner'', ''Film/MinorityReport'' (in fact anything Creator/PhilipKDick ever wrote), ''Film/TheTerminator'', ''Franchise/TheMatrix'', ''Film/MarsAttacks'', ''Film/BicentennialMan'', ''Literature/IRobot'', (and other works of Creator/IsaacAsimov), ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'', ''Series/DoctorWho'', ''Film/{{Westworld}}'', ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'', ''Anime/GhostInTheShell''.
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* {{Homage}}: Oh boy. ''Literature/SnowCrash'', ''Film/BladeRunner'', ''Film/MinorityReport'' (in fact anything Creator/PhilipKDick ever wrote), ''Film/TheTerminator'', ''Franchise/TheMatrix'', ''Film/MarsAttacks'', ''Film/BicentennialMan'', ''Literature/IRobot'', (and other works of Creator/IsaacAsimov), ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'', ''Series/DoctorWho'', ''Film/{{Westworld}}'', ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'', Galactica|2003}}'', ''Anime/GhostInTheShell''.
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* MayDecemberRomance: Tom and Maggie.
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* MayDecemberRomance: Tom Greer (Creator/BruceWillis) and Maggie.Maggie Greer (Creator/RosamundPike) is an interesting Subversion. Due to the surrogate technology, everyone appears as an ''idealized'' version of themselves, with Pike's character appearing late 20s or so, and Willis' as a well-kept 50-something. The relationship is portrayed as normal and not unusual. However, the reveal shows [[spoiler: Pike's character being OlderThanTheyLook is really in her late-40s/early 50s, an acceptable match with a late-50s Willis).]]
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* AntiVillain: [[spoiler: Lionel Cantor has some sympathetic qualities (putting aside the murdering pregnant women part); he regrets inventing the surrogates and wants to free humanity from his mistake. Until at the end in a case of [[WhatTheHellHero What the Hell Anti-Villain?]] he decides to [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope cause one billion completely avoidable deaths]].]]
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* AntiVillain: [[spoiler: Lionel Cantor has some sympathetic qualities (putting aside the murdering pregnant women part); he regrets inventing the surrogates and wants to free humanity from his mistake. Until at the end in a case of [[WhatTheHellHero What the Hell Anti-Villain?]] he decides to [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope cause one billion completely avoidable deaths]].]]
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* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:Lionel Canter, who invented surrogates in the first place. He's also the one who dropped copious hints to Greer as if he ''wanted'' to be stopped. [[MagnificentBastard Or maybe he was just playing with him.]]]]
** It's possible he would have liked there to be another way to reach his goal, but he was so deep in depression and grief that he couldn't find it.
** It's possible he would have liked there to be another way to reach his goal, but he was so deep in depression and grief that he couldn't find it.
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* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:Lionel Canter, who invented surrogates in the first place. He's also the one who dropped copious hints to Greer as if he ''wanted'' to be stopped. [[MagnificentBastard Or maybe he was just playing with him.]]]]
**]] It's possible he would have liked there to be another way to reach his goal, but he was so deep in depression and grief that he couldn't find it.
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* BloodlessCarnage: The surrogates are machines.
** [[AlienBlood Except they do seem to leak an awful lot of green hydraulic fluid when smashed.]]
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* BloodlessCarnage: The surrogates are machines.
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** Not to mention that Peters remarks in amazement that Tom looks like his surrogate. While we see other surrogates can have different appearances to their operators and Peters may not have been partnered with Tom before Surrogates became common place, you'd think the [=FBI=] of all people, would keep photographic records of Agent's ''actual appearance'' in their personnel files.
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* FantasticRacism: In less than 10 years, everyone who doesn't use a Surrogate is looked down upon as being an uncultured luddite by the masses who call them "Meatbags" and "Dreads" and treat them as though they are sub-human. This despite the fact that they themselves have to routinely offline in order get off their own "meatbag" asses in order to eat or use the bathroom. It is possible that this is coming from a certain amount of projection since, judging by many of the main characters, many of those who use Surrogates tend to have plenty of self-loathing, neuroses and insecurities.
** On the other hand, the "Dreads" are not much better, being able to rapidly organise a lynch-mob once they realise that Greer is a Surrogate. Not to mention, Surrogate or not, there is really no excuse for unloading a double-barrelled shotgun into someone's face and still think you get to keep the moral high-ground afterwards.
** In fairness, that's not half as bad as the things the Surrogates do to ''each other''.
** On the other hand, the "Dreads" are not much better, being able to rapidly organise a lynch-mob once they realise that Greer is a Surrogate. Not to mention, Surrogate or not, there is really no excuse for unloading a double-barrelled shotgun into someone's face and still think you get to keep the moral high-ground afterwards.
** In fairness, that's not half as bad as the things the Surrogates do to ''each other''.
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* FantasticRacism: FantasticRacism:
** In less than 10 years, everyone who doesn't use a Surrogate is looked down upon as being an uncultured luddite by themasses Surrogate masses, who call them "Meatbags" and "Dreads" and treat them as though they are sub-human. This despite the fact that they themselves have to routinely go offline in order to get off their own "meatbag" asses in order to eat or use the bathroom. It is possible that this is coming from a certain amount of projection since, judging by many of the main characters, many of those who use Surrogates tend to have plenty of self-loathing, neuroses and insecurities.
** On the other hand, the "Dreads" are not much better, being able to rapidly organise a lynch-mob once they realise that Greer is a Surrogate. Not to mention, Surrogate or not, there is really no excuse for unloading a double-barrelled shotgun into someone's face and still think you get to keep the moral high-groundafterwards.
** In fairness,afterwards. Even so, that's not half as bad as the things the Surrogates do to ''each other''.
** In less than 10 years, everyone who doesn't use a Surrogate is looked down upon as being an uncultured luddite by the
** On the other hand, the "Dreads" are not much better, being able to rapidly organise a lynch-mob once they realise that Greer is a Surrogate. Not to mention, Surrogate or not, there is really no excuse for unloading a double-barrelled shotgun into someone's face and still think you get to keep the moral high-ground
** In fairness,
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* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler:Canter kills Greer's partner, and impersonates her via Surrogate]].
** [[spoiler:And then Greer himself hijacks the surrogate, from the dead man's chair no less, to stop the surrogate-shutdown from killing billions]].
** [[spoiler:And then Greer himself hijacks the surrogate, from the dead man's chair no less, to stop the surrogate-shutdown from killing billions]].
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* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler:Canter kills Greer's partner, and impersonates her via Surrogate]].
** [[spoiler:AndSurrogate. And then Greer himself hijacks the surrogate, from the dead man's chair no less, to stop the surrogate-shutdown from killing billions]].
** [[spoiler:And
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** DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Lionel Canter, the inventor of Surrogates, is played by the same actor as Alfred Lanning, the creator of the Three Laws from ''Film/IRobot''.
** DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Lionel Canter, the inventor of Surrogates, is played by the same actor as Alfred Lanning, the creator of the Three Laws from ''Film/IRobot''.
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* {{Homage}}: Oh boy. ''SnowCrash'', ''Literature/SnowCrash'', ''Film/BladeRunner'', ''Film/MinorityReport'' (in fact anything Creator/PhilipKDick ever wrote), ''Film/TheTerminator'', ''Film/TheMatrix'', ''Franchise/TheMatrix'', ''Film/MarsAttacks'', ''Film/BicentennialMan'', ''Literature/IRobot'', (and other works of Creator/IsaacAsimov), ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'', ''Series/DoctorWho'', ''Film/{{Westworld}}'', ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'', ''GhostInTheShell''.
** DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Lionel Canter, the inventor of Surrogates, is played by the same actor as Alfred Lanning, the creator of the Three Laws from ''Film/IRobot''.''Anime/GhostInTheShell''.
** DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Lionel Canter, the inventor of Surrogates, is played by the same actor as Alfred Lanning, the creator of the Three Laws from ''Film/IRobot''.
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* MisappliedPhlebotinum: In this film exists the technology to control machines with your mind. Take a few minutes and think about what the world would really be like if we had that. For example, why control robot infantry that look human and are even wearing combat fatigues and helmets? Why not just control a tank?
** Unless the human mind is unable to cope with controlling a non-human interface? Imagine the difficulty a surrogate might have if it was given control over seven fingers, instead of the usual five?
*** Studies of video games and prosthetics both have shown that our minds are highly adaptive to mapping existing motor functions to new action outputs.
** Unless the human mind is unable to cope with controlling a non-human interface? Imagine the difficulty a surrogate might have if it was given control over seven fingers, instead of the usual five?
*** Studies of video games and prosthetics both have shown that our minds are highly adaptive to mapping existing motor functions to new action outputs.
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* MisappliedPhlebotinum: In this film exists the technology exists to control machines with your mind. Take a few minutes and think about what the world would really be like if we had that. For example, why control robot infantry that look human and are even wearing combat fatigues and helmets? Why not just control a tank?
** Unless the human mind is unable to cope with controlling a non-human interface? Imagine the difficulty a surrogate might have if it was given control over seven fingers, instead of the usual five?
*** Studies of video games and prosthetics both have shown that our minds are highly adaptive to mapping existing motor functions to new action outputs.tank?
** Unless the human mind is unable to cope with controlling a non-human interface? Imagine the difficulty a surrogate might have if it was given control over seven fingers, instead of the usual five?
*** Studies of video games and prosthetics both have shown that our minds are highly adaptive to mapping existing motor functions to new action outputs.
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** And the excuse that "most people are surrogates anyway, so few would be hurt" doesn't wash. Even if a crashing plane's occupants were all surrogates, there's nothing stopping said plane from hitting a populated area, with hundreds of thousands unable to escape because they were plugged into their own surrogates and unaware of the danger. A surgeon working through a surrogate would still, presumably, be working on a flesh-and-blood patient, who might die if their surgeon, and possibly the entire operating room staff, were all surrogates who suddenly went offline in mid-operation. Etc., etc.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: James Cromwell as a technological genius whose invention has revolutionized the world? [[Film/IRobot Where have I seen this bit before?]]
** Though at least there, said technological genius wasn't [[EvilGenius insanely frickin' evil]]...
** [[Film/StarTrekFirstContact Hey, hasn't James revolutionized the world 3 times by now?]]
** Bobby Sounders? That's [[HomeAlone Buzz]]. No, really.
** Though at least there, said technological genius wasn't [[EvilGenius insanely frickin' evil]]...
** [[Film/StarTrekFirstContact Hey, hasn't James revolutionized the world 3 times by now?]]
** Bobby Sounders? That's [[HomeAlone Buzz]]. No, really.
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* FantasticRacism: In less than 10 years, everyone who doesn't use a Surrogate is looked down upon as being an uncultured luddite by the masses who call them "Meatbags" and "Dreads" and treat them as though they are sub-human. This despite the fact that they themselves have to routinely offline in order get off their own "meatbag" asses in order to eat or use the bathroom. It is possible that this is a certain amount if projection going on since, judging by many of the main characters, use of a Surrogate tends to reflect plenty of neuroses, insecurities and self-loathing on the part of the user.
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* FantasticRacism: In less than 10 years, everyone who doesn't use a Surrogate is looked down upon as being an uncultured luddite by the masses who call them "Meatbags" and "Dreads" and treat them as though they are sub-human. This despite the fact that they themselves have to routinely offline in order get off their own "meatbag" asses in order to eat or use the bathroom. It is possible that this is coming from a certain amount if of projection going on since, judging by many of the main characters, many of those who use of a Surrogate tends Surrogates tend to reflect have plenty of neuroses, insecurities self-loathing, neuroses and self-loathing on the part of the user.insecurities.
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* FantasticRacism: In less than 10 years, everyone who doesn't use a Surrogate is looked down upon as being an uncultured luddite by the masses who call them "Meatbags" and "Dreads" and treat them as though they are sub-human. This despite the fact that they themselves have to routinely offline in order get off their own "meatbag" asses in order to eat or use the bathroom.
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* FantasticRacism: In less than 10 years, everyone who doesn't use a Surrogate is looked down upon as being an uncultured luddite by the masses who call them "Meatbags" and "Dreads" and treat them as though they are sub-human. This despite the fact that they themselves have to routinely offline in order get off their own "meatbag" asses in order to eat or use the bathroom. It is possible that this is a certain amount if projection going on since, judging by many of the main characters, use of a Surrogate tends to reflect plenty of neuroses, insecurities and self-loathing on the part of the user.
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** And the excuse that "most people are surrogates anyway, so few would be hurt" doesn't wash. Even if a crashing plane's occupants were all surrogates, there's nothing stopping said plane from hitting a populated area, with hundreds of thousands unable to escape because they were plugged into their own surrogates and unaware of the danger. A surgeon working through a surrogate would still, presumably, be working on a flesh-and-blood patient, who might die if their surgeon, and possibly the entire operating room staff, were all surrogates who suddenly went offline in mid-operation. Etc., etc.
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''Surrogates'' is a film by Jonathan Mostow (''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines'') based on the comic ''Comicbook/TheSurrogates''. BruceWillis stars.
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''Surrogates'' is a film by Jonathan Mostow (''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines'') based on the comic ''Comicbook/TheSurrogates''. BruceWillis Creator/BruceWillis stars.
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* {{Homage}}: Oh boy. ''SnowCrash'', ''Film/BladeRunner'', ''MinorityReport'' ''Film/MinorityReport'' (in fact anything Creator/PhilipKDick ever wrote), ''Film/TheTerminator'', ''Film/TheMatrix'', ''MarsAttacks'', ''BicentennialMan'', ''Film/MarsAttacks'', ''Film/BicentennialMan'', ''Literature/IRobot'', (and other works of Creator/IsaacAsimov), ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'', ''Series/DoctorWho'', ''Film/{{Westworld}}'', ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'', ''GhostInTheShell''.
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* {{Homage}}: Oh boy. ''SnowCrash'', ''Film/BladeRunner'', ''MinorityReport'' (in fact anything Creator/PhilipKDick ever wrote), ''Film/TheTerminator'', ''Film/TheMatrix'', ''MarsAttacks'', ''BicentennialMan'', ''Literature/IRobot'', (and other works of Creator/IsaacAsimov), ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'', ''Series/DoctorWho'', ''{{Westworld}}'', ''Film/{{Westworld}}'', ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'', ''GhostInTheShell''.
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Anyone Can Die does not mean \"a character dies.\" It means a setting where anyone and everyone is fair game to be killed at any time.
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* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler: Peters]]. That's not to say the surrogate is out of commission, though...
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Set TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture (2017), ''Surrogates'' gives us a world where everybody[[hottip:*:or at least the USA]] lives through robotic puppets known as Surrogates. The appeal of this lifestyle is obvious from the outset: Freedom to live life the way you want, looking how you want, without the downsides of pain and death. That is until FBI Agent Tom Greer comes across a victim somehow killed ''through'' their Surrogate.
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Set TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture (2017), ''Surrogates'' gives us a world where everybody[[hottip:*:or everybody (or at least the USA]] USA) lives through robotic puppets known as Surrogates. The appeal of this lifestyle is obvious from the outset: Freedom to live life the way you want, looking how you want, without the downsides of pain and death. That is until FBI Agent Tom Greer comes across a victim somehow killed ''through'' their Surrogate.
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''Surrogates'' is a film by Jonathan Mostow (''[[{{Terminator}} Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines]]'') based on the comic ''Comicbook/TheSurrogates''. BruceWillis stars.
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''Surrogates'' is a film by Jonathan Mostow (''[[{{Terminator}} Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines]]'') (''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines'') based on the comic ''Comicbook/TheSurrogates''. BruceWillis stars.
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* {{Homage}}: Oh boy. ''SnowCrash'', ''Film/BladeRunner'', ''MinorityReport'' (in fact anything Creator/PhilipKDick ever wrote), ''TheTerminator'', ''Film/TheMatrix'', ''MarsAttacks'', ''BicentennialMan'', ''Literature/IRobot'', (and other works of Creator/IsaacAsimov), ''{{Alien}}'', ''Series/DoctorWho'', ''{{Westworld}}'', ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'', ''GhostInTheShell''.
** DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Lionel Canter, the inventor of Surrogates, is played by the same actor as Alfred Lanning, the creator of the Three Laws from Film/IRobot.
** DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Lionel Canter, the inventor of Surrogates, is played by the same actor as Alfred Lanning, the creator of the Three Laws from Film/IRobot.
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* {{Homage}}: Oh boy. ''SnowCrash'', ''Film/BladeRunner'', ''MinorityReport'' (in fact anything Creator/PhilipKDick ever wrote), ''TheTerminator'', ''Film/TheTerminator'', ''Film/TheMatrix'', ''MarsAttacks'', ''BicentennialMan'', ''Literature/IRobot'', (and other works of Creator/IsaacAsimov), ''{{Alien}}'', ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'', ''Series/DoctorWho'', ''{{Westworld}}'', ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'', ''GhostInTheShell''.
** DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Lionel Canter, the inventor of Surrogates, is played by the same actor as Alfred Lanning, the creator of the Three Laws fromFilm/IRobot.''Film/IRobot''.
** DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Lionel Canter, the inventor of Surrogates, is played by the same actor as Alfred Lanning, the creator of the Three Laws from
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** [[spoiler:Except for Canter, somehow, who intends to use it to destroy every surrogate everywhere.]]
*** [[spoiler:Canter finds out when he (in one of his many surrogates) breaks into Tom's partner's place and views her surrogate's memory on the console - just before he kills her so he can steal her surrogate.]]
** [[spoiler:Except that he gets stopped, and ''Tom'' is the one who ultimately does the deed, after ensuring that no one would die.]]
*** [[spoiler:Canter finds out when he (in one of his many surrogates) breaks into Tom's partner's place and views her surrogate's memory on the console - just before he kills her so he can steal her surrogate.]]
** [[spoiler:Except that he gets stopped, and ''Tom'' is the one who ultimately does the deed, after ensuring that no one would die.]]
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** [[spoiler:Except for Canter, somehow, Canter who intends to use it to destroy every surrogate everywhere.everywhere, '''and every user'''.]]
*** [[spoiler:Canter finds out when he (in one of his many surrogates) breaks into Tom's partner's place and views her surrogate's memory on the console - just before he kills her so he can steal her surrogate.]]
** [[spoiler:Except that he gets stopped, and ''Tom'' is the one who ultimately does the deed, destroying the surrogates but only after ensuring that no one would die.]]
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* {{Homage}}: Oh boy. ''SnowCrash'', ''Film/BladeRunner'', ''MinorityReport'' (in fact anything PhilipKDick Creator/PhilipKDick ever wrote), ''TheTerminator'', ''Film/TheMatrix'', ''MarsAttacks'', ''BicentennialMan'', ''Literature/IRobot'', (and other works of Creator/IsaacAsimov), ''{{Alien}}'', ''Series/DoctorWho'', ''{{Westworld}}'', ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'', ''GhostInTheShell''.
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Set TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture (2017), ''Surrogates'' gives us a world where everybody[[hottip:*:or at least the USA]] lives though through robotic puppets known as Surrogates. The appeal of this lifestyle is obvious from the outset: Freedom to live life the way you want, looking how you want, without the downsides of pain and death. That is until FBI Agent Tom Greer comes across a victim somehow killed ''through'' their Surrogate.
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** In fairness, that's not half as bad as the things the Surrogates do to ''each other''.
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Set TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture (2017), ''Surrogates'' deals with [[WhatYouAreInTheDark identity problems]] and warns against the use of crutches for [[NoMedicationForMe those who don't need them]].
To explain more fully: this is a film where everybody[[hottip:*:or at least the USA]] lives though robotic puppets known as Surrogates and the problems that result when the main character has to go out in the world without his robotic puppet.
To explain more fully: this is a film where everybody[[hottip:*:or at least the USA]] lives though robotic puppets known as Surrogates and the problems that result when the main character has to go out in the world without his robotic puppet.
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Set TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture (2017), ''Surrogates'' gives us a world where everybody[[hottip:*:or at least the USA]] lives though robotic puppets known as Surrogates. The appeal of this lifestyle is obvious from the outset: Freedom to live life the way you want, looking how you want, without the downsides of pain and death. That is until FBI Agent Tom Greer comes across a victim somehow killed ''through'' their Surrogate.
Given how large a role Surrogates play in people's lives, Greer expectantly meets heavy resistance to the notion someone is able to target people through their mechanical avatars. And as it becomes more clear that there is someone attempting to destroy this way of life Tom soon finds himself outside the safety of his machine body.
The film primarily deals with [[WhatYouAreInTheDark identity problems]] and warns against the use of crutches for [[NoMedicationForMe those who don't needthem]].
To explain more fully: this is a film where everybody[[hottip:*:or at least the USA]] lives though robotic puppets known as Surrogates and the problems that result when the main character has to go out in the world without his robotic puppet.
them]].
Given how large a role Surrogates play in people's lives, Greer expectantly meets heavy resistance to the notion someone is able to target people through their mechanical avatars. And as it becomes more clear that there is someone attempting to destroy this way of life Tom soon finds himself outside the safety of his machine body.
The film primarily deals with [[WhatYouAreInTheDark identity problems]] and warns against the use of crutches for [[NoMedicationForMe those who don't need
To explain more fully: this is a film where everybody[[hottip:*:or at least the USA]] lives though robotic puppets known as Surrogates and the problems that result when the main character has to go out in the world without his robotic puppet.
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* {{Homage}}: Oh boy. ''SnowCrash'', ''Film/BladeRunner'', ''MinorityReport'' (in fact anything PhilipKDick ever wrote), ''TheTerminator'', ''Film/TheMatrix'', ''MarsAttacks'', ''BicentennialMan'', ''Literature/IRobot'', (and other works of Creator/IsaacAsimov), ''{{Alien}}'', ''Series/DoctorWho'', ''{{Westworld}}'', ''BattlestarGalactica'', ''GhostInTheShell''.
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* {{Homage}}: Oh boy. ''SnowCrash'', ''Film/BladeRunner'', ''MinorityReport'' (in fact anything PhilipKDick ever wrote), ''TheTerminator'', ''Film/TheMatrix'', ''MarsAttacks'', ''BicentennialMan'', ''Literature/IRobot'', (and other works of Creator/IsaacAsimov), ''{{Alien}}'', ''Series/DoctorWho'', ''{{Westworld}}'', ''BattlestarGalactica'', ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'', ''GhostInTheShell''.
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YMMV sinkhole; also, Examples Are Not Arguable (or any synonym thereof).
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* TheExtremistWasRight: This seems implied of [[spoiler: Canter]]. YourMileageMayVary.
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* TheExtremistWasRight: This seems implied of [[spoiler: Canter]]. YourMileageMayVary.
