Last weekend's movie

This pass weekend's Netflix movie was "The Final Cut" starring Robin Williams as Alan Hakman a cutter. In this story parents have been able to choose for their newborns to have a Zoe Implant, a microchip implanted that records everything they see and hear throughout their lives. Upon their eventual death the chip can be removed, the video/audio accessed and edited and a version, usually with the good stuff of the person's life can be show as a remembrance at their funeral. Williams is one of the best "cutters", a person who edits these videos to bring out there best qualities and deletes those events which are not what one would like to think people would want to find out about. The good cutters work by a "code" that they tell nothing about what they see in the editing process to produce a video that the living left behind can find comfort in about their loved one. But after a few twists in Alan's life and an interest from a former cutter about one of Alan's client projects things start to get dangerous.

Though it was described as a futuristic thriller I saw it as a alternate present. All aspects of society are what we see around us today, just this Zoe Implant part which is known to all and has been around long enough for some of the folks that passed on were 50 or older. Also there are Zoe Implant protesters with some weird things of their own going on. I liked the movie, hard to recommend because it may not be everybody's cup of tea. It's a little slow in the beginning but in the last third it became more interesting for me. That's one of the things I like about having Netflix, we'll watch movies we may not have picked out if we had been browsing around video rental store.