A look into a world where people can become implanted with a 'Zoe' chip that records their memories from the time they are in the womb. In this world the movie's main character is the 'cutter' Alan: a technician that selectively edits the memories of the dead for their loved ones to remember. But there are those who wish to end this technology. To this end they need the raw footage from an employee of the company that developed it. Alan himself is deeply interested in this employee's memories when he discovers in them a man who might be the same boy he remembers as having died in childhood. In the middle of the film the employee's memories are destroyed beyond repair. But it turns out that, unbeknownst to him, Alan himself was implanted with one of the 'Zoe' chips --- a big no-no for a cutter. Alan ends up being killed for his memories of editing the employee's memories.
The movie is melancholic. It plays on memory and guilt over our memories. It is not a great movie, but I think it is better than it is given credit for. Its main aim is to show the evils that the 'Zoe' chips would bring into the world.
Is there something I'm missing...?
Damn it! I just watched this entire movie and I don't have any idea what it was about. I get the whole cutting concept, and realize I probably missed something because I don't have any fuggin idea what was the point of this story or how close I would've had to have watched it to understand it.
Shout by Caitlin ClevengerVIP 5BlockedParent2020-10-28T00:13:08Z
I just can't get over how dumb the concept is: you buy a memory recorder for your unborn child, for the exclusive purpose of being able to put together a better tribute video for them at a funeral that neither you nor they will likely attend?
It would almost make sense if it was a crime deterrent that cops used to catch murderers, but no, the writer of Final Cut thinks that the first thought that pops into a pregnant mother's head is "But what video will they show at my baby's funeral?"