The Consequences of Being God

Rating: Null/10 (11 September 1999)

The dark, nightmarish L.A. of 2019 is the perfect context for this story about the nature of life and the consequences of presuming to create. Being, as we are, on the threshold of Petit God-ness - able to create life yet with out the wisdom to protect life that already exists - the film could be considered a warning against the conceit inherent in that pursuit. Rutger Hauer's Roy was no villain in returning to "meet one's maker" he merely came to get an answer to his plea: "I want more life!" His only crime was wanting not to die and to be freed from a life which he had no say in becoming, was doomed to a designer's termination program because his makers feared him and in which he was fully aware of his creation, his capabilities,his status and his fate. He just wanted more life.

It's been a hallmark of the technological age that humans have given little thought to consequences with often tragic results. We should be well warned that in aspiring to "godliness" we may face the most tragic consequenses yet.