This film raises some interesting issues for me. Firstly, the issue of our foods being genetically modified to become another food, for example the Nacho flavoured banana which Clara offers Adam at the start of the film. For me, our foods should be left the way they are, i.e. banana flavoured bananas and nacho flavoured nachos. Flavours and textures of existing foods should not be messed around with in my opinion.
The cloning issue interests me because theoretically, we would never die if we had the technology and permission to clone people after death, but as The Sixth Day suggests they would, would the clone possess the same characteristics as the original person? Memory and experience must surely be impossible to clone as they would not be contained within cells, as the physical matter of the human is... I feel the clone would just be a shell of the original person without any memory or experiences of the original human being.
The film also deals with issues such as gene modification. The idea of being able to make a human being without any flaws or potential genetic diseases seems in theory to be a good idea - we could limit the damage done to families by genetic diseases and prevent the suffering of thousands and thousands of people who could potentially be born with a genetic disease. would I do it? possibly, but I couldn't possibly say unless I was in that situation. The use of gene modification for trivial things such as amending hair and eye colour is going too far - I would want my own child to have the hair and eye colour it was genetically predisposed to have, not the designer or fashionable one I had picked out for it. Babies are not dolls to be played with, they are living beings who should be treated as such. Growing up as a designer baby would present all sorts of problems - would they be bullied for not being allowed to develop naturally? what if the growth process went wrong in the womb and they became deformed because of the cloning process or what if, because of the cloning, there were some terrible implications for the childs health in it's future? These would all be issues the child and it's parents would all have to live with.
Even HSBC bank are exploring the issue of cloning with the idea that all are entitled to their own points of view - according to HSBC, 55% of taiwanese people believe that cloning has already happened. In the advert, it is a boffin who has apparently been cloned and he arrives home after work to numerous versions of himself - in my opinion, one of me is enough for anyone - more than one would result in a complete lack of individuality and identity.