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The Island is a sci-fi film first released by DreamWorks SKG on July 22 2005, starring Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson. The film was directed by Michael Bay, written by Caspian Tredwell-Owen, Alex Kurtzman, and Roberto Orci, and produced by Kenny Bates and Michael Bay. Prior to its theatrical release, some reviewers of the film criticised it for being too simplistic and derivative of other motion pictures. Critics have claimed that The Island is a pastiche of "escape-from-dystopia" science fiction films produced in the late 1960s and 1970s such as Fahrenheit 451
, THX 1138
, Parts: The Clonus Horror
, and Logan's Run
. It earned over $160 million worldwide in its theatrical release, and cost $122 million to produce.

Plot

The film's plot is set in the year 2019 and is centered around a seemingly utopian colony of people, apparently rescued from the overpolluted outside world. Isolated in an enormous building, the people of the structure live according to the rules that are selected for them: their clothes, their meals, their leisure, and other human activities. After a seemingly random amount of time, which is commonly one week, a lottery relocates one person to a paradise known as "The Island".

Lincoln Six-Echo, played by Ewan McGregor, is one of the colonists.

When the film begins, he awakes from a nightmare of going to the Island and then drowning. A sensor strip along his wall in his white steriled bedroom, wishes him a good morning and detects his irratic REM cycle. His urine also has excess sodium so he is told he will need to have a "nutritional advisement". Even more displeasing for Lincoln is that he is missing a left Puma shoe. Lincoln is in a large white complex and takes an elevator down to the ground level. In the elevator, Lincoln watches as Starkweather Two-Delta (played by Michael Clarke Duncan) bragging about winning the most recent lottery competition. Lincoln's nightmares surprise Dr. Merrick (played by Sean Bean) in the Tranquility Center: dreams involving a boat, azure blue waters, a resplendent island, drowning and the word Renovatio.

Jordan Two-Delta (played by Scarlett Johansson) is introduced when Lincoln arrives in the cafeteria. Lincoln is incensed when he is denied bacon for breakfast. He speaks with Dr. Merrick in the Tranquility Center where Merrick is surprised at Lincoln's knowledge of the word Renovatio. After he arrives at the Department of Labor, a fellow employee, Lima One Alpha, of his goes into labor and is moved to a separate room to give birth.

Lincoln subsequently causes a computer failure in order to visit his friend James McCord (played by Steve Buscemi), who works in a restricted area that is presumed to have a contamination risk. While in this area, Lincoln happens upon something unusual: a flying insect. Had the outside world been contaminated the insect would not have appeared in the building. Lincoln catches the insect to take back to his room.

At a nightclub after a virtual reality match between Lincoln and Jordan - using a giant X Box in which Jordan wins - Lincoln tells Jordan about the insect he captured as well as sharing his skepticism about the "contamination" and about the "survivors" coming to the colony on a fairly regular basis, but Jordan simply calls Lincoln pessimistic. At the same time, The Lottery plays in which the Community Announcer (Noa Tishby) announces that Jordan is the winner and the next person to head to The Island. Lincoln and Jordan are separated by one of the Censors because Lincoln and Jordan committed a "proximity violation" which in reality means that they touched each other's arms.

Later on during the night, Lincoln has another bad nightmare. Shaken by his most recent nightmare, he decides to sneak out of his room and the colony to where he caught the insect. He then releases the insect and decides to follow it. Lincoln climbs a ladder which takes him out of the colony and up to the upper levels of the facility.

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