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Surrogates -- A music video from the movie Surrogates.
Surrogates -- People are living their lives remotely from the safety of their own homes via robotic surrogates -- sexy, physically perfect mechanical representations of themselves. It's an ideal world where crime, pain, fear and consequences don't exist. When the first murder in years jolts this utopia, FBI agent Greer (Willis) discovers a vast conspiracy behind the surrogate phenomenon and must abandon his own surrogate, risking his life to unravel the mystery.
Surrogates -- A clip from the movie Surrogates.
Surrogates -- A featurette for the movie Surrogates.
Surrogates -- Interview: Rosamund Pike "On Surrogacy"

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Director:
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Michael Ferris (screenplay) &
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Release Date:
25 September 2009 (USA) See more »
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How do you save humanity when the only thing that's real is you? See more »
Plot:
Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop (Willis) is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates. Full summary » | Full synopsis »
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Also Known As:
"Vicarious" - Philippines (English title) (review title)
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Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence, disturbing images, language, sexuality and a drug-related scene.
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89 min
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Some scenes were filmed at the Draper Factory in Hopedale, Massachusetts.See more »
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Continuity: After Greer gets beaten up up by the Prophet's guards, his scars keep moving and changing severity for the rest of the movie.See more »
Quotes:
[first lines]
The Prophet:Look at yourselves. Unplug from your chairs, get up and look in the mirror. What you see is how God made you. We're not meant to experience the world through a machine.
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How did the FBI have information about all the surrogates?
How can 98% of the world's population afford surrogates?
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25 out of 40 people found the following review useful.
Illuminating allegory for online communications, 1 October 2009
Author: kallepister from North by Northwest

One of the best CGI "upholstered" sci-fi flicks as yet. Very 80s, guess the idea (or even the entire William-Gibson-like script) slouched about for 20 years before it was realizable without appearing ridiculously B-grade. And Bruce Willis looks like Elton John for once, or vice versa :-) So much on the obvious.

Ah yeah, IMDb etiquette makes it hard to draw stringent conclusions to real occurrences, but all i can say is that if we web-nuts would turn off our machines for good, get up and simply walk outside our very flats, this world would be very different, and probably a better one, too.

Any artificial online identity, let it be 2ndlife or WOW, comprises a substantial momentum of addiction and unresistant devotion. To what? That's where this allegory jumps in quite helpfully.

We're no artificial surrogates yet, but already part of and surrounded by a more and more zombified public, where the MP3-downloads on our mobiles may actually mean more to our well-being than the unconcerned, indifferent, fear- and/or greed-powered ambition that accounts for most of our daily uprisings.

Crown of creation? Hell we are. Anyone noticed the missing comma?

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