Final Cut, The (2004)
Starring: Robin Williams (Alan W. Hakman), Mira Sorvino (Delila), Jim Caviezel (Fletcher), Mimi Kuzyk (Thelma), Stephanie Romanov (Jennifer Bannister)
When Charles Bannister (Michael St. John Smith) dies, Alan is requested by the widow, Jennifer, to do the cutting for Charles. Fletcher (who is part of an anti-implant, anti-cutting group) approaches Alan and offers him money to get his hands on Charles’s memories because he wants to bring down EyeTech, the implant company. Alan refuses. As Alan searches through Charles’s memories, it turns out he had been molesting his young daughter, Isabel (Genevieve Buechner). He also sees a familiar man - Louis Hunt (Peter Hall) - whom he thought he had accidentally killed when they were young boys, so he starts to search for Louis. Alan finds out he has a Zoe implant himself, which a cutter cannot have. He gets his colleagues to hook him up to wires to access his own memories. He goes back to that time when he was playing with Louis and it turns out Louis didn’t die after all. Fletcher searches Alan’s home, looking for Charles’s chip. Alan shows up and gives him the chip, but it’s no longer readable. He tells Jennifer he wasn’t able to recover anything from Charles’s chip and then leaves. Fletcher and his men go after Alan because the memory of Charles’s memories are in Alan’s implant. One of Fletcher’s guys shoots and kills Alan. Fletcher tells him it was for the greater good. In the end, Fletcher is going through Alan’s memories to see Charles’s memories.
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September 14th, 2005 at 9:27 am
I think the final cut was a great movie. The end was confusing (at first). Sure Fletcher was getting Bannister’s memories from Alan. In the book he says to himself “Your life will mean something. I promise you”. I thought at first that it was a non-ending but now - My opinion is that the whole movie is to be taken as Alan Hackman’s rememory ceremony. That is the only way I can reconcile Alan’s death with Fletcher’s desire to make Alan’s life “mean something”.
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