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Replicas

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Replicas	label	Replicas
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Replicas	comment	Replicas is a 2018 science fiction thriller film, starring Keanu Reeves.Reeves plays William Foster, a neuroscientist experimenting in transferring human consciousness from one body to another. The film opens with Foster and his lab partner, Ed Whittle (Thomas Middleditch), attempting to transfer the mind of a soldier who was recently killed in combat to a robotic body, effectively bringing him back to life. The experiment works on a technical level, but after only a few seconds of consciousness, the soldier panics and begins ripping his new mechanical body apart, forcing Foster to pull the plug on him and declare the experiment a failure.The day after the experiment, William and his family take a vacation. En route to their destination, the family runs into an intense thunderstorm. Lightning strikes a tree, which causes a branch to break through the windshield and impale William's wife Mona (Alice Eve) and ultimately causes their van to swerve off the road into a lake. Foster's entire family is killed, save for William himself.Desperate, William contacts Ed and begs him to retrieve equipment from their lab, so that he can clone new bodies for his family, finally succeed in his project in transferring human consciousness, and save his family.
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Replicas / int_2344d3d6	type	Post-Cyberpunk
Replicas / int_2344d3d6	comment	Post-Cyberpunk: The film deals with a lot of the cyberpunk themes, such as many technological developments often considered dangerous or controversial (brain uploading, cloning, robots) along with a huge nefarious corporation (plus the government it's working with) but treats using such technology as not inherently bad, just risky (partly due to their kinks, plus what people will do to have it). Though it isn't easy, with enough effort they can be used safely and lead to a happy ending. Meanwhile, the world looks exactly the same.
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Replicas / int_2630ef75	type	Emergency Transformation
Replicas / int_2630ef75	comment	Emergency Transformation: Most of William's patients were people that had recently died who could be saved by uploading their consciousness into a new body.
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Replicas / int_2a44899	type	Plot Armor
Replicas / int_2a44899	comment	Plot Armor: William survives the car crash that killed his entire family with nary a scratch, for no real reason beyond being the main character.
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Replicas / int_4ab9c868	type	Pretty Little Headshots
Replicas / int_4ab9c868	comment	Pretty Little Headshots: Ed takes a bullet to the head, and he (and his surroundings) look remarkably clean afterward.
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Replicas / int_63c2119c	type	Grounded Forever
Replicas / int_63c2119c	comment	Grounded Forever: William, in his efforts to convince everyone his family is still alive, pretends to be them through texts and email. When he discovers a boy has been flirting with his older daughter, he texts the boy using her phone, telling him she's grounded until she's 18.
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Replicas / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Replicas / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: William's boss, Jones, knew all along that William and Ed stole the technology from Bionyne to clone William's family. He allowed it to happen because he knew it would lead to the breakthrough that Bionyne was in need of. After William is successful, Jones attempts to have the Fosters assassinated and William's research stolen.
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Replicas / int_6b723294	type	Techno Babble
Replicas / int_6b723294	comment	Techno Babble: The movie's opening scene has the scientists use a lot of science buzzwords and concepts that really don't make any sense.
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Replicas / int_8967e17f	type	Back from the Dead
Replicas / int_8967e17f	comment	Back from the Dead: William manages to revive his family using their copied minds and cloned bodies. Near the end he also revives Jones.
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Replicas / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
Replicas / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Jones kills Ed, after he gets him to confess that he stole the cloning technology from Bionyne.
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Replicas / int_9ebd9c33	type	UnPerson
Replicas / int_9ebd9c33	comment	Un-person: William erases his family's memories of Zoe and throws everything belonging to her in the trash, since he was unable to clone her and he didn't want them to live with that knowledge.
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Replicas / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Replicas / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: The way people's memories are extracted from their brains... yeah. Amped up a bit when William decides to copy his own memories by himself, while he's awake!
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Replicas / int_a2f1b41d	type	Robot Me
Replicas / int_a2f1b41d	comment	Robot Me: Towards the end of the film William copies his own consciousness and uploads it to a robot body. The human William gets to leave with his family, while the robot William goes off-grid to protect their research.
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Replicas / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Replicas / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: William, in his own words, breaks every law of nature to get his family back. This is in addition to breaking several laws of man, disobeying his boss, stealing his family's memories, getting his partner in crime killed, and creating a robot duplicate of himself presumably with the same memories and desires. Despite all that, he gets to live happily ever after, with no lingering conflict or guilt.
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Replicas / int_b6c0ef1f	type	What Have I Become?
Replicas / int_b6c0ef1f	comment	What Have I Become?: William was unable to save his earlier patients because their organic minds still believed that they were in their organic bodies, and panicked when they realized their bodies felt different. William is able to fix this by writing an algorithm that tricks the mind into thinking that it is still in an organic body.
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Replicas / int_b983a56b	type	Came Back Wrong
Replicas / int_b983a56b	comment	Came Back Wrong: The soldier that William revives at the start of the movie cannot seem to remember who he is, then starts panicking and ripping his new, robotic body apart and bashing his own head in. Subverted though for his family and the later robot he places a copy of his own mind into, after he makes it think it's in an organic body, along with Jones at the end.
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Replicas / int_babc974	type	Sadistic Choice
Replicas / int_babc974	comment	Sadistic Choice: Bionyne only has three cloning pods, meaning that William cannot save all four members of his family and is forced to choose one to sacrifice.
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Replicas / int_da46a2c0	type	Hollywood Atheist
Replicas / int_da46a2c0	comment	Hollywood Atheist: Subverted. William doesn't believe that there's anything more to a person's mind than just the neurochemistry which makes up their brains, rejecting any soul. His wife Mona is dismayed by this materialist view, trying to dissuade him from it. Yet he is never anything less than a good man. He later manages to successfully revive both her and most of their children through copying their minds into some cloned bodies, which isn't portrayed as bad.
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Replicas / int_e7b0229a	type	Laser-Guided Amnesia
Replicas / int_e7b0229a	comment	Laser-Guided Amnesia: William erases all memory of Zoe, his youngest daughter, since he was unable to save her along with the rest of his family and didn't want it to be traumatizing for them.
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Replicas / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
Replicas / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: Compared to most Cyberpunk and Biopunk stories, this one ends with a happy ending of William and his family living peacefully.
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Replicas / int_fc52510	type	Brain Uploading
Replicas / int_fc52510	comment	Brain Uploading: William's research involves copying a person's mind and transferring it to a new body, either robotic or a clone of their original one.
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