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The Final Cut

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The Final Cut	comment	The Final Cut is a 2004 Science Fiction thriller film written and directed by Omar Naim. It stars Robin Williams, Jim Caviezel, Mira Sorvino, Mimi Kuzyk, Stephanie Romanov, Genevieve Buechner and Brendan Fletcher.The film takes place in a setting where memory implants make it possible to record entire lives. Williams plays a professional who specializes in editing the memories of unsavory people into uncritical memorials that are played at funerals.
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The Final Cut / int_12dd1d4c	comment	Rape as Drama: One of the first people we see Alan working on. His wife tells him that "my husband was a good man." In his recorded memories, Alan sees him dragging a woman into a closet and raping her. He nonchalantly cuts this memory out, as it is hardly the sort of thing a family looking to celebrate "a good man" would want to see.
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The Final Cut / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Final Cut / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Alan dies and due to Bannister's implant being damaged, he gets away with his crimes. However, Fletcher gets a hold of Alan's implant, which have enough evidence of Bannister's misdeeds.
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The Final Cut / int_440d1d0b	type	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!
The Final Cut / int_440d1d0b	comment	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Fletcher has no problem either talking people in to breaking the Cutter's Code, or the law, or doing either himself, if it means doing the right thing.
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The Final Cut / int_6a42ef	type	Cynicism Catalyst
The Final Cut / int_6a42ef	comment	Cynicism Catalyst: As a child, Alan met a boy named Louis, whom he witnessed fall from a high point while exploring an abandoned factory. His death is what motivates Alan to become a cutter, believing he was justified in doing whatever was necessary to edit unpleasant memories.
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The Final Cut / int_99ddfcec	type	Unwitting Instigator of Doom
The Final Cut / int_99ddfcec	comment	Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Alan's girlfriend reacts poorly upon finding he had a hold of her implant, resulting in her thrashing his memory viewer and Bannister's implant getting destroyed.
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The Final Cut / int_afc6df04	type	What You Are in the Dark
The Final Cut / int_afc6df04	comment	What You Are in the Dark: One of the film's central themes. The people who have these implants have every second of their lives recorded. . . but the only people who can view these recordings are the sworn-to-secrecy cutters. They get to see all the things these people do, even when they think no one else is watching, and cut out elements that won't play well as a memorial video. Even the opposition to the implants is based on this, more or less: how might you act different in front of someone if they might be recording everything you say and do to them? How might you act differently if you know someone, no matter how strictly they are forbidden from speaking of it, is going to watch your life from beginning to end? How is a person's right to privacy affected by people who might be videotaping them constantly, even if they aren't aware of it?
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The Final Cut / int_bf35c04a	type	Demoted Memories
The Final Cut / int_bf35c04a	comment	Demoted Memories: The film opens with Alan's memory of him causing Louis to fall to his death when they were both kids, but when going through the memories of Charles Bannister, he finds a man who looks like Louis. Cue Alan's frantic search for the truth about his memories.
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The Final Cut / int_e8a56ee7	type	Steven Ulysses Perhero
The Final Cut / int_e8a56ee7	comment	Steven Ulysses Perhero: The main character, a "cutter" who edits the recorded memories of the deceased for their families, is named Alan Hackman.
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The Final Cut / int_f32d85ab	type	20 Minutes into the Future
The Final Cut / int_f32d85ab	comment	20 Minutes into the Future: Outside of the implants and the tattoos to disable them the tech is on par with 2004 technology.
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The Final Cut / int_f909b16b	type	Dark Secret
The Final Cut / int_f909b16b	comment	Dark Secret: At some point, Alan learns that he himself received an implant.
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The Final Cut / int_ff0f3915	type	Memory Jar
The Final Cut / int_ff0f3915	comment	Memory Jar: Babies can get a special implant that will record their entire lives so that loved ones can see them after the individual's death. Alan's job is to cut and edit these memories into a film so that only the best memories are seen.
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