Jack Smith movie reviews: Date 11-20-2000
Anybody seen the movie “Sixth Day”? Nobody’s seen Arnold Schwarzenegger yet? OK, he is back, and it came out on Friday. It’s one of those strange movies you go to the review columns and half the people in the review column; [It] It’s kinda like [a] a vote for president, we really oughta have a recount of all of the movie reviewers because they’re totally split. [uh] Half of ‘em say, [uh] “This is a stupid, as usual, Arnold Schwageneger movie it’s all been done before and although it’s got some cute special effects [uh] it’s been done better other places and it’s stupid and ridiculous anyway, and the premise, don’t go!” And then there’s other reviewers that said, ”This is the greatest thing that Arnie’s done since “Terminator”, and it’s great and whatever.” Okay well, none of these people review it based upon understanding and content and if they did then they might have a different opinion. In the beginning of the movie or, toward the start of the movie, there is a quotation from scripture in Genesis, and the quotation is very simple and it goes, “and on the sixth day God created man”. The premise of this movie is, that in the world of cloning, there’s no doubt about the fact that the current technology, even the technology level that they will divulge to you, has already shown you that they have cloned sheep and they have also cloned other animals. And of course, Dolly was cloned back in the early ninety’s or somethin like that ’91-2 somewhere. And that’s what they’re willing to tell you the technology has changed considerably. In this movie they talk about cloning to the extent that, with the human genome project studies on DNA, with the cloning experiments with animals, with all of the genetic processes going on with fruits, vegetables and everything else. They set up the premise at the start of the movie that there was a cloning attempt in the not too distant future, in which they attempted to clone a human and it went disastrously wrong. And the people were so outraged and incensed that Congress passed a law making it illegal to clone humans. But for the premise of the movie, just about everything else is being cloned. In fact it is absolutely commonplace that at the time of the movie if your pet dies, you can go down and have the mental and physical genetic characteristics of your pet cloned and out of the pet store in two hours. Under the presumption that the bodies, which they call blanks, have been grown without DNA in the cells. And that these blanks are stored as physical devices which, when combined with correct genetic information, placed into the blank, along with a mental cortex transport, which puts the memory into the blank. The pet comes out, within two hours, looking and acting exactly like the good old cat, dog or animal that you’ve had at home for years and years and years. So that you don’t have to tell little Mary or little Tommy that their pet got ran over by a truck while they were at school. But remember it’s illegal and unlawful to clone humans, premise of the story.
There is a corporation that is highly involved in this genetics practice, who’s chief scientist and CEO are deeply involved in all kinds of activities going on. And one day they enter into a contract agreement with this helicopter service. And Arnold Schwarzenegger is the chief pilot for the helicopter service. And as part of the contract to ferry around the CEO and high officials, with this corporation, it’s part of the terms and conditions of the contract that the people involved with the helicopter company must give them a blood sample and an eye scan analysis for identification. And for [purp] purposes of protection of the corporate officials from any kind of “hanky-panky”. So on the afternoon, there’s only two pilots in this small company Arnold and his friend, they take the blood sample and the eye scan, by one of their own doctors from the corporation, right down conveniently at the helio-pad in this big city. And that evening sure enough, right off the bat, the corporation [is or the, yea the corporation] is going to hire the helio service to ferry their CEO and some people up to the snow mountains for some ski boarding and stuff so we’re gettin business right away. And Arnold Schwarzenegger was supposed to be the pilot on that flight. But he had personal problems and things to carry out. So his other pilot buddy said, “No problemeo, I’ll act like you and I’ll do the flight, they’ll never know.” Because they have some samples, but they didn’t ask who was who so they don’t even know which one is which. But they had the flight scheduled with Arnold and so the flight took off. Well, it turns out that there was a party that didn’t like this corporation and the CEO, and he met the helicopter at the ski pad and killed everybody on board. Arnold didn’t know about this. When he got home about nine o’clock that night, it being his birthday, he knew there was supposed to be a party. When he got home at nine o’clock that night he saw all kinds of cars and commotion coming from the house. He looked in the front window and he saw himself at the party, celebrating. And he goes, “What in the world is going on, who is that guy?” And he’s just about ready to get into his own house, to throw the impostor out when two sinister figures tap him on the shoulder and say, “There’s been a sixth day violation, you need to come with us.” And he goes, “Yea right, I need to come with you, how bout that impostor in there?” Well, physically they remove him from the site. So much for illegal and unlawful, at cloning humans. The argument was, “We don’t care if you’re the real party or if you’re the clone but nobody, nobody can acquire evidence that there is more than one of the same person existing at the same time. So we don’t care if we remove you or remove him. But if you went into that house and showed people that there were more than two of the same person existing we would have to kill everyone in that house including your wife and children. You don’t want that to happen.”
What’s interesting about this movie is, in the trailers and in the advertisement they use the following statement, “Do you know who you are?” Because the clone is the metaphor for the straw man. That’s all it is. And you will find out that the real Arnold Schwarzenegger, or his character in the movie, obviously gets loose and tries to determine what’s going on and find out what’s happening. And he keeps running across some sinister figures that try to keep stopping him all the time. And Arnold keeps killing em, and then about five or ten minutes later in the same movie, they’re back! And he’s gotta kill em again. And he finally makes the statement; “Don’t you dead people stay dead?” If you really understand what the straw man and the creation of this Admiralty-similar world is like. The movie “Sixth Day” is an absolute tongue-in-cheek metaphor for everything that’s going on. And you will find out that what’s going on behind the scenes is they’re replacing live people with, clones, dead people, that’s the plan. And you see why and how they’re doing it. Now in the movie, you’re supposed to believe it’s merely a clone, it walks, acts, and talks, and runs around like you and you don’t have a clue what’s going on. But at one time, in the film, the bad guy looked at Arnold Schwarzenegger and said, “How do you know you’re not the clone?” And Schwarzenegger says, “I know who I am.” And The bad guy says, “Oh, well let’s just see if you really know who you are.” He said, “When we make a clone,” he says, “We put a mark on the clone.” And he says, “It’s inside the lower eyelid, if you bring it down and you see a dot in there, every time you’ve been recloned there’s another dot.” He said, “Would you care to be interested to check?” So Arnold goes to the mirror, pulls his eye down, and he’s got a dot there. Doesn’t even know who he is, even though he thinks he knows who he is.
It’s a good High-tech movie. Yes, a lot of it’s been done before. But in light of what you know and you understand about cloning, i.e. they’ve created an artificial entity, which in their mind and in their commercial world, walks, talks, moves about, and does business. That’s exactly what they’re kind of spoofing in the Sixth Day violation. God created man, men created artificial entities, and that’s all that’s going on. I love the ending, I really shouldn’t, it deals with admiralty, it’s kinda cute, somebody goes on a voyage, it’s really sweet. [All of the little,] all the little symbols and details are in there, it’s really a neat flick. So, you may want to check that out this holiday season.
As transcribed by: Majic