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Elias Chininis English 1102 3 / 14 / 08 Essay 2 The Island In The Island, a dystopian film directed by Michael Bay, we come upon a world in the not so distant future with some serious problems. People of the world now have the ability to purchase the ultimate life insurance in the form of a personal clone; available for any sort of life saving organ donorship that may become necessary. Since the clone is an exact genetic replica of the person, there are little complications when it comes to using these organs. Throughout the film we follow two clones on a journey to find their sponsor, and make a plee for their lives. Throughout the film, Bay uses the simplest of questions to help put us into the minds of these†¦show more content†¦In the literal sense of the allegory Jordan and Lincoln are actually imprisoned in a cave and find a way to escape. Figuratively, Lincoln and Jordan are also released from their way of thinking find a way out of the fake reality they were calling real life. Eerily similar to the allegory, The Island plays out a sequence in which one resident of the cave is able to see outside, and returns to tell another who has yet to see it. (Plato) Lincoln is the one to realize the outside world first, and he tells Jordan what he believes. Exactly as the allegory predicts, Jordan doesn’t believe. It is impossible for her to think outside of the world she knows. Slowly they both discover the outside world, and it all comes together in the scene in which they have finally erupted from the clone stations, and stand â€Å"blinded by the light† (Plato) of their new world. As the story continues, they eventually receive new clothes altogether. When they put on regular clothes they begin to accept their situation, and begin their search for their sponsors. They find Lincoln’s sponsor, Tom Lincoln, and after a series of events Lincoln and Jordan end up becoming intimate. 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