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Out of desperation, the ambitious scientist run a final experimentВ and successfully birth a semi-human specimen. There hopes of mixing in human DNA are dashed when the corporation funding the project decides to shut it down. Clive and Elsa are lead biochemist at a research company called N.E.R.D (nice) who have successfully spliced different types of animals to form new life forms. Splice, released today, is a sci fi/horror flick about a science experiment gone bad, real bad. We are once again reminded that brilliant scientist should never be left alone. ItвЂ™s certainly not with flaws (lack of focus, moments of disbelief, unnecessary violence), but at the end of the day it was worth seeing. The subject matter is mature, and not for everyone. I went it knowing little about the plot and I managed to avoid even a single trailer, so the visual effects were compelling and fresh. It creates tension and builds momentum in the first act, stalls a little in the second, and builds to a climax in the third, but regrettably falls apart in the last few moments.Дespite all of that, I enjoyed it. Characters arenвЂ™t developed as much as they are revealed (in CliveвЂ™s and ElsaвЂ™s characters) or deliberately inhibited (in DrenвЂ™s character). Where it stands up is in the character interaction between a weak-willed Clive, an increasingly unpredictable Elsa, and a mostly innocent Dren.

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It doesnвЂ™t have a clear cut protagonist, so there are no heroes here вЂ“ every character in this movie has some serious issues. ItвЂ™s not entirely horror, or completely science fiction, or even entirely original. The question вЂњWhatвЂ™s the worst that could happen?вЂќ is answered in graphic detail. The latter half of the movie expands its topics from science and ethics to those of cruelty, abuse, sex, violence, and murder. Dren is caught between the two scientists and their malfunctioning moral compasses, locked away, and at the mercy of her own under-developed, human emotions and animal nature. If there are right and wrong actions to every situation, Clive and Elsa choose the wrong action virtually every time, with increasingly horrific results. Here on the farm, the relationship between Clive, Elsa, and Dren changes and the movie shifts direction, from science fiction to psychological thriller/horror. I'm not Dren, but I am an attractive, bald, human/alien hybrid. When her discovery by the laboratoryвЂ™s manager seems unavoidable, Clive and Elsa sneak Dren out of the facility to ElsaвЂ™s childhood home, a remote farm tucked away on an X-files locale, complete with deserted house, creepy woods and all. Locked away in the basement of the lab, child-Dren grows up into a beautiful young woman ( Delphine ChanГ©ac), whose only interactions are with her creators/parents. Dren, as she is named, fulfills ElsaвЂ™s latent desire to be a mother, and Elsa is unable to remain scientifically dispassionate toward the little girl however, Clive is still unsure what to do about the вЂњspecimenвЂќ. The little creature still exhibits an accelerated growth pattern and quickly grows from something that looks like a baby sea lion with chicken legs into an adorable little girl with chicken legs. When the embryo comes to term after an extremely accelerated gestation, Clive and Elsa find themselves taking divergent paths of scientific study and personal gain.

When faced with the imminent corporate restructuring of their lab, they decide to push their scientific and ethical envelopes one last time by creating an embryo spliced from the combination of human DNA and the DNA of their other creations. Clive and Elsa hope to continue the research that would eventually allow them to completely eradicate certain genetic defects among humans, but their parent company is more interested in creating. Step 5 вЂ“ Analyze Data and Draw a Conclusion:Д¬live ( Adrien Brody) and Elsa ( Sarah Polley) are brilliant, romantically involved geneticists who have gene-spliced together a completely new life-form, one that creates proteins useful for making someone an obscene amount of money. Materials required: popcorn, carbonated beverage, and sugary snacks. Step 4 вЂ“ Test Hypothesis by Conducting Experiment: If I watch this movie, having little or no foreknowledge of it, I may be pleasantly surprised. Chances are likely that it wonвЂ™t be terrible. ItвЂ™s been a while since my last science fiction movie, so in preparation for this one I decided to conduct my own scientific experiment.