Melanie Christensen

June 26. 2001

Film: Freejack

2. To identify, describe, and criticize several typical scenarios or states of the future.

a. high tech; virtual reality

c. utopia/ dystopia/ ecotopia

Summary:

An action drama set in 2009. A race car driver who is about to die in a crash in 1991, suddenly finds himself alive and transported to the future. But his troubles aren’t over: a wealthy man on the verge of death needs the driver’s body to stay alive - and he’ll stop at nothing to get it.

In 2009, the world is polluted, the hole in the Ozone layer and the financial gulf between society’s "haves" and "have nots" is so large that the rich must search the past to find health young bodies to replace their own. When Furlong, a race car driver, dies and leaves his body intact, he becomes a candidate for this psycho surgery. But he escapes and runs for his life.

1. Freejack. Directed by Geoff Murphy. Morgan Creek Productions, Inc. 1992.

3. Sheckley, Robert. Immortality, Inc. Buccanner Books, Inc. 1993.

ISBN: 0899683630

1. Should it be a crime to "steal" or "sell" a body that is no longer in use?

2. Who has the right to eternal life? Who should die to give others eternal life?

Explanation of excerpt from movie - Julie and Alex are in the elevator on their way up to the "spiritual switchboard." When they arrive they are met by Julie’s boss, Mac, who explains that he is the person who wants Alex’s body.

Discussion -

Jay: Is this a moral issue to "steal" or "steal"

Lacy: "Compare it to donating your organs."

Joseph: " Consent of use of your body, like with your organs."

Lacy: "Eventually we would run out of bodies, maybe have to create bodies to continue."

Dr. White: "Clones without heads means you could dehumanize them."

Lacy: " There is always the same difference between the haves and the have nots, people who can will."

Val: "Could you choose a body in advance, before the other person dies?"

Lacy: " Steve Martin movie Man with Two Brains, don’t think were close to that but the idea has been around for a long time."

Glenn: "We are assuming that the same standard of economy with still be effect. Economy will effect the future of technology. We should not believe that no evolution will occur."

Dr. White: "Mac is the Donald Trump of the future, therefore, he has the power."

Lacy: "Don’t use technology to speed up life, but use it to slow the aging process."